Can you chip in $30 – and fuel the push to let Australians decide on a gas export tax
Australian beer drinkers pay more tax than gas export companies pay in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
Big gas is taking the piss, and Australian governments are letting them.
Ordinary Australians are fed up. That’s why it’s time they voted on what happens to their gas.
The Australia Institute is leading this push for a national vote on a 25% tax on gas exports – and every dollar you donate today will help fuel it.
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When it comes to changing the national conversation on gas, The Australia Institute has runs on the board. Our research has shown that:
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- The Japanese Government collected more tax from Australian gas exports than the Australian Government
- Australia exported 20 years worth of gas in 5 years, while Australians were threatened with 'shortages'
- Gas exports have tripled Australian gas prices and doubled electricty 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 80% of Australia's gas is used for export 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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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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