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Select Committee on Electric Vehicles – General Submission Electric vehicles are a very small segment of the Australian automobile market currently, with sales of just over 2000 vehicles last year, in a market with over 1 million annual sales.However technological and policy progress internationally is likely to see the global market grow significantly, with some predicting annual sales of 30 million electric vehicles in 2030. Electric vehicles pose significant opportunities to reduce emissions, imp... Read More
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Company tax cuts: new analysis shows foreign investors big winners New analysis by The Australia Institute shows that foreign investors will be the unambiguous winners of the big business company tax cut ($50+ million turnover). “If the remaining company tax cuts now before the Senate are implemented the gift to foreign shareholders will be $3.7 billion in 2026-27, the year the tax cuts are fully phased in. For the decade beginning in 2026-27, this will be $45.4 billion,” said Ben Oquist, Executive Director of T... Read More
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Mayo: New Polling on Asylum Seekers and Adani The Australia Institute commissioned ReachTEL to poll the federal seats of Mayo (766 respondents) on the evening of Wednesday 25 July. Key Findings: 59/41 two-party preferred, favouring Centre Alliance candidate Rebekha Sharkie 64% of Australians support bringing genuine refugees to Australia who arrive by boat, only a quarter support indefinite detention on Nauru and Manus Island.A majority oppose the Adani mine going ahead Question: Of t... Read More
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Mayo: New Polling on Company Tax Cuts, Voter Priorities for Government Revenue, Newstart The Australia Institute commissioned ReachTEL to poll the federal seats of Mayo (766 respondents) on the evening of Wednesday 25 July. Key Findings: 59/41 two-party preferred, favouring Centre Alliance candidate Rebekha Sharkie Only 27.7% support for cutting company tax rate for large business, while 65.8% want tax rate increased or kept same 63.5% oppose or strongly oppose banks receiving company tax cut (29.5% support or st... Read More
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Harming Farming: The cost to agriculture from the government’s emissions reduction planAustralia’s commitment under the Paris climate agreement is to reduce carbon emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. With the announcement of the National Energy Guarantee the government has required the electricity sector to reduce its emissions by 26 per cent. This implies other sectors such as agriculture will also need to reduce emissions by at least 26 per cent by 2030. This approach will impose significant costs on agricul... Read More -
NEG 26% Target Spells Trouble for Agriculture SectorNew analysis from the Australia Institute shows that requiring Australia’s agricultural sector to reduce emissions by at least 26 per cent by 2030 would impose significant costs and reduced production for the industry. The federal government’s proposed NEG plans to lock in a 26 per cent reduction in the electricity sector, implying an intention to reach the Paris target using a proportional sector by sector approach, requiring each sector to redu... Read More
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The ABC needs fixing, not 'saving'By Richard Denniss - Chief Economist at The Australia Institute. [Read in the Australian Financial Review]Wars are expensive and culture wars are no different. Indeed, the opportunity cost of Australia's culture war is enormous as it comes at the expense of developing meaningful energy, broadband and tax policy. But while our Constitution spells out how government should be formed, it makes no mention of what kind of issues we should d... Read More
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The Basin FilesSince allegations of large-scale water theft were aired on Four Corners in 2017, a flood of media reports have shown that the $13bn Murray-Darling Basin Plan is not being well implemented: agency cover ups, political and regulatory capture, agencies with cultures of non-compliance, dodgy water deals, alleged fraud and unlawful amendments.[READ FULL REPORT]
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Derivation of Long Term Diversion Limit Extraction factors in NSW The Australia Institute welcomes the opportunity to make a submission on the Long-Term Diversion Limit Extraction (LTDLE) factors.LTDLEs are required to determine how much water has been recovered to meet the government’s water recovery target under the Murray-Darling Basin reforms. LTDLE factors need to be resolved to bring certainty to communities and water licence holders about how much water has been recovered to date and the progress towards... Read More
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Tony Abbott out of touch with Warringah New polling shows Tony Abbott, Federal Member for Warringah, is out of touch with his electorate on issues of coal, renewable energy and climate change – and his electorate know it. The Australia Institute commissioned a ReachTEL poll of 615 people in the electorate of Warringah, which was conducted on 11 July 2018. Key results: Majority (59%) of respondents want Australia to stay in the Paris Agreement, only 35.6%% of respondents want Australia... Read More