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While the gas industry spends millions delaying reform, we rely on sustained public pressure to force it.

That pressure doesn’t sustain itself – it’s only possible because people like you back us for the long haul.

Become a monthly donor today to power our research, keep up the pressure on the gas industry, and drive real policy change.

Your monthly support will power a steady drumbeat of credible, trusted research that emboldens powerful voices to speak up, debunks lies in real time, and reaches millions of Australians with one clear message: gas companies aren't paying their fair share.

Here's what more than a decade of that work has uncovered:

Australian gas gets given to multinational corporations for free - over half (56%) of gas exports pay zero royalties and zero Petroleum Resources and Rent Tax (PRRT)
The federal government collects more money from students paying HECS/HELP than from oil and gas companies paying the PRRT
In just four years, multinational companies made $149 billion exporting Australian gas royalty-free

Every week the government delays a 25% gas export tax costs Australians $350 million.

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Your impact

Some of the recent impact of our work includes:

Playing a critical role in the Federal Government’s decision to redesign the Stage 3 tax cuts to deliver an additional $84 billion dollars from high income earners to low- and middle-income earners over the next ten years, the culmination of five years of Australia Institute research and advocacy
The announcement of no less than six different inquiries into prices and price-gouging, following our influential research exposing how excessive corporate profits were largely responsible for the burst of inflation that followed COVID lockdowns.
The establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, following a decade of research and advocacy from the Australia Institute exposing the serious flaws and gaps in our integrity system.
Exposing how around 75% of Australia's gas is exported overseas, over half (56%) of gas exported from Australia attracts zero royalty payments, effectively giving a public resource to multinational gas corporations for free.

But we couldn't do it without supporters like you.

The Australia Institute is not government-funded. We are powered by donations from philanthropy and by thousands of supporters across the country who value research that matters, as well as grants and commissioned work.

For more than 30 years the Australia Institute’s independent, non-partisan research has played a critical role in shaping Australian public policy for the better. But we can't do it without you.

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