Freedom of information (FOI) is a crucial part of the beneficial information feedback loop between the government and the people. However, this submission finds that Australia's FOI system is broken and cultural and legal changes are needed to fix it. It presents the South Australian FOI review process as a model that could be adopted...

This report examines the extent to which fossil fuel companies are involved in Australian universities, positing that this involvement compromises the integrity of those universities’ research and undermines their independence, impartiality and credibility. It argues that universities should cut ties with fossil fuel companies to protect their independence, as they have ended relationships with tobacco...

Australian federal Members of Parliament and Senators are entitled to over $3 million in pay, resources and benefits over a three-year election cycle. These resources can be used to boost re-election chances. Combined with changes to electoral laws coming into force, this paper finds that these threaten to make Australian elections less competitive than ever.

Australia is a low tax country, with increasing demands for government spending. This paper identifies three simple tax reforms which would raise an extra $70 billion a year without hurting low or middle-income Australians: more comprehensive taxation of capital gains, the introduction of an annual wealth tax and the introduction of a wealth transfer tax.

This paper underlines the impact of climate change on the economy and productivity ahead of the upcoming Australian Government's Economic Reform Roundtable. It finds that climate change and productivity are inextricably linked, concluding that any genuine economic plan for the future would be incomplete without taking into account the impact of climate change.