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Thank you for helping to change the national debate and shift power from vested interests like the gas lobby and back in favour of ordinary Australians.
Your gift will support The Australia Institute to continue:
- Responding quickly to fossil fuel industry misinformation
- Reminding Australians how much we're losing from not properly taxing gas exports
- Producing and sharing our research exposing the gas industry’s free ride exploiting our resources
- Briefing MPs, senators and policy-makers on our research
- Keeping this vital issue front and centre of the political debate, in the Budget and beyond
- Working to finally ensure Australia gets a fair return for its resources, a fairer tax system and a lower cost-of-living for all Australians.
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More about our research taking on the gas industry
We have the runs on the board. Our research has changed the national conversation on Australian gas by showing that:
- 20 years worth of gas was exported in the past 5 years, while Australians were threatened with shortages
- Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricity prices
- Most Australians think too much gas is exported and want gas exports taxed
It takes a team – when you donate to the Australia Institute you are supporting our economists, researchers and experts to improve public policy. We could not have the impact we do without your support.
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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