Recent economic modelling on the impacts of a 25% gas export tax has been quickly and fully embraced by the fossil-fuel companies, and other lobby groups. This analysis of the modelling finds that it is mostly irrelevant to the gas industry in Australia in modelling a gas project that doesn’t exist.

Australians are suffering from climate disasters that are accelerating as climate change worsens. The extraction and use of fossil fuels is a key factor driving climate change and the resulting increasing costs of natural disasters. This paper proposes a levy on fossil fuel exports could make the fossil fuel industry pay for the harms it...

Climate misinformation and disinformation in Australia often originates from the very institutions charged with protecting the public interest. This report finds that the Australian Government is a source of climate misinformation and disinformation. While the report focuses on climate, the reforms outlined address the same root causes that enable misinformation across Australian public life.

This paper outlines how unlimited gas exports over the past decade have increased energy prices for Australians and raised little money for the public. The Australian Government’s response is a ‘gas reservation scheme’. The paper finds that the proposal in December’s Gas market review report (GMR) report looks unlikely to fix gas policy.

Australia has one of the world’s most privatised high school systems. This paper reveals that Australia is the most expensive place in the developed world for families to send a child to high school. It finds there is no evidence that the significant expense of privatised school education has boosted Australia’s education performance.