Medical misogyny, where systemic, conscious or unconscious gender biases affect how a patient is treated by the healthcare system, can create significant gendered imbalances in healthcare. This paper outlines some causes of medical misogyny and investigates its practical impacts on Australians. Addressing the crisis of medical misogyny requires structural change to Australian healthcare.

Since signing the Paris Agreement, Australia’s fossil gas exports have doubled, and coal exports have increased significantly. The Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels offers an opportunity to focus on how countries like Australia can phase out fossil fuels. This paper covers four steps to phase out fossil fuels with minimal economic...

War in Iran and the resulting impacts on energy markets have intensified debate about Australia’s gas exports. While Australian debate on taxation of gas features regular international comparisons, a comparison with Japan itself is rarely made. This report aims to fill this gap with a basic introduction to Japan’s Petroleum and Coal Tax.

Australia’s democracy is being stretched thin, with each federal parliamentarian MP now representing almost four times as many people as at Federation. This paper proposes that more MPs would increase the talent pool for ministries, reverse the growth in physical size of rural and regional electorates, and make MPs more responsive to local communities.

This analysis reveals that a fair and appropriate increase to the minimum wage, and accompanying increases to award rates, would not have a significant effect on inflation in Australia. The analysis examines the correlation between minimum wage increases and inflation going back 30 years, and finds no consistent link between minimum wage increases and inflation.