The Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology has called for an extension in the way computer games are classified, to capture design architecture that exposes children to addictive, gambling-based content in many common games.
New research from The Australia Institute shows that the New South Wales Government’s attempts to force planners to ignore the carbon emissions of the state’s coal exports contradicts NSW climate policy,
Coal mined in NSW causes more emissions than the UK or France and nearly four times more than directly emitted from NSW itself. NSW climate policy aims for net zero emissions by 2050.
An urgent, two year extension of funding for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is required to maintain its critical role in improving energy reliability and reducing costs as Australia transitions to low-carbon sources,?
The Commonwealth Government has made technology central to reducing emissions to 2030, but the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has only $200 million to allocate to new projects. With multi-party support for the Agency, legislation to extend its funding should be urgently passed.
New research by The Australia Institute finds that the Commonwealth’s ‘call-out’ of Army Reserves for bushfire relief served political rather than practical purposes, raising serious legal questions around the use of the military.
New national survey research from The Australia Institute reveals most Australians have been personally impacted by the bushfires and smoke, including millions missin
The Revenue Summit is a special initiative of The Australia Institute that discussed the need to increase public spending to strengthen our economy and society, and how to raise public revenue efficiently and equitably.
Tax is the price we pay to live in a civilised society, but in contemporary Australia, we rarely ask how much civilisation we would like to buy and what the best new ways way to fund any increase in civilisation might be.
Below you will find all research papers on company tax cuts produced by The Australia Institute?to date [updated 25.06.18]
The big four banks get an extra $7.4 billion dollars:
Australia’s big four banks are some of the?most profitable banks in the world?and are the big winners here,?getting an extra $7.4 billion dollars?in the first 10 years of the tax cuts when they’re already making record profits. By the 2025–26 financial year, the tax cuts for the big four banks will be $3.2 billion every year.
With the House of Representatives set to commence debate on marriage equality, The Australia Institute and the National LGBTI Health Alliance have released preliminary* results of an a major survey into the stress impacts associated with the Australian marriage equality debate during the lead up to the postal survey results announcement.
More than 9,500 LGBTIQ people and their allies (friends, family etc.) participated in the self-selecting survey which investigated stress as a result of exposure to negative messages about LGBTIQ people and same-sex marriage and how people responded to this.
The South Australian state government announced in late June 2017 that it was going to follow the Federal government and introduce a levy on the big banks. Episode 19 of Follow The Money, explains why the banks can absolutely afford the levy, why it's a good idea economically and just how small the levy really is compared to -- for example -- the salaries of the CEOs of the big 4 banks.
Australian governments are proposing to fund and build billions of dollars’ worth of?new electricity generation capacity as the solution to our energy security crisis
Regardless of whether investments like Snowy 2.0 or ideas for ‘clean’ coal power?stations go ahead, these supply-side solutions will require many years to build and will?have no impact on security of supply next summer (2017-18).
Luckily, there are demand-side solutions that use energy more wisely, which could?potentially secure hundreds of MW of supply headroom this year.
