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Key Findings: High-income households and Liberal held electorates are the biggest beneficiaries of negative gearing.Key Findings:Negative gearing primarily benefits high income householdsYoung are the biggest losers from negative gearingLiberal held electorates the biggest winners fromnegative gearing[READ REPORT]

The Australia Institute apologises for the delay in publishing the October National Energy Emissions Audit, which was due to internal considerations. The November National Energy Emissions Audit is currently being prepared and will be released on time.The Australia Institute Climate & Energy Program has released the latest National Energy Emissions Audit for the electricity sector (The Audit*) covering September 2018. The Audit shows tha...

The combination of the projected rise in extreme heat as a result of global warming and the high levels of humidity at the Gold Coast present a serious risk to the health and wellbeing of the region’s population.The Gold Coast has historically experienced a relatively pleasant climate with only around one day over 35 degrees per year. However, the amount of these extreme heat days could increase up to a projected 34 days by 2090. At temperatures...

Extracting gas from the Northern Territory through hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is one of the largest potential sources of carbon pollution in the world.The Fracking Inquiry that reported earlier this year recommended that unconventional gas extraction should only be permitted if the all 135 recommendations are accepted and implemented. All recommendations were accepted by the NT Government when it lifted the gas moratorium. One of those rec...

Increasing extreme heat will have profound effects on people, industries and ecosystems in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast region.CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology projections estimate that the average number of days over 35 in the region could increase up to tenfold without strong climate policies from a current average of three to 32 days by 2090. More than half of summer nights are projected to remain above 25 degrees by 2090, a level considered dan...

The average number of days over 35 and 40 degrees in Roma has increased annually since the early 1990s. CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology projections estimate that, without climate action, days over 40 degrees could rise from five days per year to 58 days in 2070 and as many as 84 days by 2090. Half of the nights in summer are projected to remain above 25 degrees by 2070, a level considered dangerous to human...

Tasmania’s shellfish aquaculture and commercial wild-catch fisheries are responsible for 8,400 tonnes of production each year, with a gross value of $209 million. Between them, these sectors employ between 1,091 and 1,310 people across all four of Tasmania’s regions.The distribution of fishing and aquaculture jobs varies across Tasmania’s four regions. Offshore caged aquaculture (the main method of farming salmon) provides the majority of fishing...

The Revenue Summit is a special initiative of The Australia Institute that discussed the need to increase public spending to strengthen our economy and society, and how to raise public revenue efficiently and equitably.Tax is the price we pay to live in a civilised society, but in contemporary Australia, we rarely ask how much civilisation we would like to buy and what the best new ways way to fund any increase in civilisation might be.We need to...

The Australia Institute surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,449 Australians about income inequality and income taxation. Overall most respondents agreed with principles of progressive taxation and disagreed that income tax in Australia should be made less progressive.Key Results:+ 74% of respondents agreed that if the gap between high and low incomes grows, people on higher incomes should pay more of the total income tax. This is a k...