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Submission: Socio-economic conditions in the Murray Darling Basin The Australia Institute made a submission to the Independent Assessment of Social and Economic Conditions in the Murray-Darling Basin. The socio-economic conditions of the Murray Darling Basin share many characteristics with other areas of regional Australia – lower incomes and difficult access to important services. These should be addressed as well as the mismanagement of the Basin’s water resources, which has had a particularly hard impact on... Read More
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Submission: Murray-Darling Basin Commission of Inquiry Bill 2019 The Australia Institute supports the Murray-Darling Basin Commission of Inquiry Bill 2019.This submission considers the implementation of the Basin Plan from a financial auditing perspective.
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Submission: Coal-Fired Power Funding Prohibition Bill 2017 The Australia Institute made a submission to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee's inquiry into the Coal-Fired Power Funding Prohibition Bill 2017. The submission highlights our existing research on Australia’s energy market and coal-fired power generation.A coal phase out by 2030 is needed to meet our Paris Agreement commitments. Coal communities are better served by funding for a just transition than subsidies for coal plan... Read More
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Submission: Jemena pipeline The Australia Institute made a submission on the Galilee Gas Pipeline proposed by Jemena. The Pipeline Project should be considered a controlled action under the EPBC Act as it would impact on matters of national environmental significance.
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Submission: Barwon-Darling Water Sharing Plan We thank the Natural Resource Commissioner for the thorough and forthright Draft Review of the Barwon-Darling Water Sharing Plan. We support all of the Commission’s recommendations.We raise two additional matters for the Commission’s consideration: Legality of the 2012 Barwon-Darling Water Sharing PlanCap compliance
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Australia ill-equipped for fuel security crisis: time for solution Australia faces significant risks to national security, energy security and climate change mitigation, due to a heavy reliance on imported oil and access to only a limited amount of fuel at any one time, according to new analysis from the Australia Institute. The new research finds that Australia is unprepared to deal with any potential fuel security crisis. Key findings: 90 per cent of the fuel consumed in Australia is derived from oil so... Read More
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Submission: Interim Report on the Liquid Fuel Security Review The Department of the Environment and Energy is conducting a Liquid Fuel Security review and public consultations on the Interim Report. This report is an edited version of The Australia Institute’s submission to that consultation.The Interim Report outlines significant risks to Australia’s transport energy security. Addressing these security risks requires reducing oil consumption and accelerating the transition to elect... Read More
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Submission: PRRT Transfer pricing The Australia Institute made a submission to Commonwealth Treasury’s Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Gas Transfer Pricing Review. Australians are being short changed by the LNG industry and the way it is taxed. A shift in the way the PRRT estimates transfer prices between a project’s upstream extraction and downstream liquefaction to ‘netback only’ pricing, could increase revenue by $89 billion between 2023 and 2050.
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Submission: Ulan coal modification 4 The Australia Institute made a submission on the proposed modification to the Ulan coal mine. Assessment of the proposal does not meet NSW guidelines and overstates potential benefits. It should be rejected on economic and climate grounds.
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United Wambo Mine: Comments to the Independent Planning Commission The Australia Institute made a submission to the NSW Independent Planning Commission’s May 2019 consideration of the United Wambo coal project. The latest assessment by Deloitte, commissioned by the mine proponents, confirms Australia Institute analysis that mine voids can be filled leaving a $139 million surplus, based on EIS figures.This submission follows from The Australia Institute's February 2019 submission to the NSW Independent Planning C... Read More