This research confirms that corporate profits in Australia, despite recent moderation, remain well above historic norms, and must fall further in order to allow a rebuilding of real wages in Australia that have been badly damaged by recent inflation.

This paper outlines how the growth in the greenhouse gas emissions of Australia’s passenger vehicle fleet is one of the highest among the developed countries.

In 2022, the Queensland Government improved its coal royalty scheme to ensure additional government revenue is generated in times of high coal prices This briefing note estimates the changes to royalty revenue that New South Wales would have generated had the state adopted reforms similar...

While debate continues on the appropriate response to Australia’s sky-high coal, gas and electricity prices, the size of the resulting profit windfall for multi-national coal mining companies has not been widely estimated or discussed. This paper takes a closer look at some of the issues...

The distributional consequences of record high profits and record low real wage growth have been widely discussed in Australia recently, but the data presented in this paper suggests that rising profits are now the major driver of inflation.