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  • Small government has small support - National poll

    A large national poll of 1,557 Australians, released today by think tank The Australia Institute, has shown 64% of people want more public spending funded by tax revenue. Just 11% want lower taxes and less public spending.

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  • Australia – the low tax country

    OECD data shows Australia raises less tax revenue than almost all developed countries

    [Full report see PDF below]

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  • The Liberals' immigration plan is working all too well

    Peter Dutton's best argument for Australia to lower its annual immigration intake is one word: Sydney. Australia's largest city has been made crowded, slow, expensive and unproductive by decades of unplanned immigration.

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  • Australia is a low tax country

    Open letter calls for more tax, not less in order to address inequality and ensure ongoing prosperity as Australia Institute research shows Australia ranks 8th lowest of 35 OECD members in tax to GDP.

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  • #WTF2050: What’s Tasmania’s future? (Scott Rankin)

    First published in The Examiner, 15 April 2018

    By 2050, everyone everywhere will have the right to thrive. (Yep, utopia).

    All communities are changing all the time. 

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  • Support for stronger emission reductions targets and coal phase out [POLL]

    A large national poll of 1,557 Australians, conducted by The Australia Institute, has shown strong support for an increase in Australia’s emissions reduction target to at least 45% by 2030.

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  • Top scientists call for NT to keep gas in the ground

    Twenty of Australia’s top scientists are calling to permanently ban fracking in the Northern Territory because of its impact on climate change.

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9,500+ participate in major study of impact of same sex marriage postal survey

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.

Posted on:
4 December 2017
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Follow the money - Episode 19 - why a bank levy is a great idea

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.

Host: Deputy Director Ebony Bennett // @ebony_bennett

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Report: Saving mega bucks with negawatts

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.

Posted on:
13 July 2017
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Prominent Australians urge PM: Don’t cut Newstart

Comedian Corinne Grant, former Liberal leader John Hewson, award winning author Anna Funder, and businessman John Menadue AO join a list of 32 prominent Australians signing the open letter.

 

Posted on:
26 August 2016
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Cut the Company Tax Rate - Why Would You?

There have been a lot of big claims made about cutting company tax cuts.

The Australia Institute has looked at the evidence and our research suggests that the 'jobs and growth' claim doesn't stack up. What is clear is that cutting the company tax rate will put a very big, permanent and growing hole in the nation's budget bottom line. This policy will cost Australia billions, that is certain, and where that money will end up - or who wins? We summarised our research in this short TV commercial:

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