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The Australia Institute has shown that record insurance premiums are driven by climate damage, and that local governments can’t keep up with the soaring costs. This has been repeated in the media and by the insurance lobby. Our research is changing the story on how Australians understand the economic reality of climate change.
Your donation today will continue to fund this independent research – and keep telling this important story.
Because Australians shouldn’t have to foot the bill for climate destruction caused by fossil fuel companies.
Australia Institute research exposing the fossil fuel industry
Over a decade we've shown that:
- 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.Most Australians think too much gas is exported and want gas exports taxed
This is slow, unsexy work – but it's effective and it's helped made possible by our monthly donors.
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.
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