The gas industry’s abuse of the West Australian community has gone on for too long. The authors of this paper argue that it's time for an honest public conversation about gas in WA. This report focuses on gas in the WA economy as part of a series that hopes to contribute to this public discussion.

This paper focuses on the central claim that Australia is over-reliant on income tax compared other developed (OECD) nations. In doing so, it examines the OECD’s own data about how much tax its 38 member countries collect and finds that Australia falls well below OECD averages, both in terms of total tax burden and in...

This paper uses data provided by Buildings Alive to demonstrate the potential of load shifting in commercial buildings to reduce costs, emissions and contribute to solving some of the infrastructure challenges facing Australia’s electricity systems.

This paper provides some basic background on Australia’s Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA) problem and current policies designed to address it before critiquing the most recent economic study on RIFA eradication and showing how small changes to its methodology result in cost benefit ratios that strongly support RIFA eradication.

The Australia Institute has prepared this submission to the inquiry into access to Parliament House by lobbyists. The submission builds on the institute’s existing research on lobbying, including regarding the disclosure of ministerial diaries and proactive disclosure of representations made by lobbyists and trade associations.