Power our independent research
As an independent think tank, the Australia Institute has spent 30 years delivering research that shifts national debates, drives reform, and challenges powerful, corporate interests – like the mostly foreign-owned gas corporations getting a free ride on our resources.
But none of that is possible without the support of people like you.
Donate before 30 June to power research that changes Australia for the better.
We have the runs on the board. Our research has changed the national conversation on Australian gas by showing that:
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- Australian beer drinks pay more tax via the beer excise than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resources Rent Tax
- The Japanese government has collected more tax on Australian gas exports than the Australian government
- Most Australians think too much gas is exported and want gas exports taxed
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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.
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