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Common Misconceptions in the Climate Change Debate
Submission Number 2 to The Senate Reference Committee Inquiry into Australia's Response to Global Warming

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Recent Reports

Feb
The heat goes on: Breakdowns at gas and coal plants in NSW, 2018
Meltdown 2018: Breakdowns at gas and coal plants over 2018

Jan
Poll: Overwhelming Support for Electric Vehicle Incentives
Poll: Overwhelming Support for Electric Vehicle Incentives
Trolls and polls: the economic costs of online harassment and cyberhate
Suboptimal supercritical
National Energy Emissions Audit: January
A Fish Kill QandA
HeatWatch - Extreme Heat in Adelaide
Saved by the bench
South Australians Back EVs - Polling Brief

Dec
Coorongs don’t make a right
National Energy Emissions Audit - December
Not Adani Deal: Queensland Government subsidies to Adani
A Hollywood Ending? The Menindee Lakes Option 7 proposal
Volatile gas: Economics and gas in Western Australia
Private Sector Wage Growth Still in Doldrums

Nov
The economic impacts of unconventional gas in Western Australia
National Energy Emissions Audit - November
HeatWatch: Extreme heat in Western Sydney
Australians Want a Price on Pollution, Regret Abbott’s Repeal
Under the Employer's Eye: Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance in Australian Workplaces
Excessive Hours and Unpaid Overtime: 2018 Update
Will-o’-the-ISP - Estimating renewable energy employment under the Integrated System Plan
Sunk costs: Carbon capture and storage will miss every target set for it
Balance of Power - Senate projections, Spring 2018
Renewable electricity policy for Australia
Frackmail?
Gorgon-tuan Problem
Different Breeds of Watchdog
Who really benefits from negative gearing?
National Energy Emissions Audit - October 2018
Heatwatch: Extreme heat in the Gold Coast

Oct
Options for the implementation of Recommendation 9.8 of NT Fracking Inquiry
HeatWatch: Extreme heat on the Sunshine Coast
HeatWatch: Extreme heat in Roma
Wentworth exit poll: climate inaction and coal key to Liberal vote collapse
Fishing for compliments: Fishing in the Tasmanian economy
Revenue Summit 2018 - Speeches and Papers
Polling: Income Tax and Inequality
Australia, we need to talk about revenue
I'll have what they're having
The Future of Transportation Work: Special Series, WA Transport
Gas and the Wide Bay Burnett Economy
Trickle Out Effect

Sep
Coalapse! The New South Wales winter “energy crisis”
Depoliticising the ABC Board
National Integrity Committee calls for bipartisan support of integrity plan
Stay on Target: Australia set to miss Paris Target
Banking Royal Commission most important for Australians: poll
Heatwatch: Extreme heat in Gladstone
Heatwatch: Extreme heat in Rockhampton
Hume poll: Liberal primary vote drops, voters support more action on climate, not less
An Open Letter to the Western Australian Government calling for permanent ban on fracking
National Energy Emissions Audit - September Electricity Update
Climate of the Nation 2018
GISERA and conflict of interest
Colossal fossil failures
Banking against the Reef
Unspoken alternatives to expensive housing

Aug
Down in the dumps
Wentworth: Liberal primary vote crashes, climate action message clear
Four Views on Basic Income, Job Guarantees, and the Future of Work
Polling brief – Ministerial Recognition
Company tax cuts: last priority for WA voters
SA, TAS, QLD miss out on company tax cuts: new analysis
Company tax cuts: $39.5 billion for big banks
The price of uncertainty Economic modelling and the National Energy Guarantee
National Energy Emissions Audit - August electricity update
What AEMO’S Integrated System Plan Report implies about the National Energy Guarantee
Workers’ slice of Australian economic pie gets smaller
Exploring the Decline in the Labour Share of GDP
Company tax cuts: $7.67 billion to just one company

Jul
Company tax cuts: new analysis shows foreign investors big winners
Mayo: New Polling on Asylum Seekers and Adani
Mayo: New Polling on Company Tax Cuts, Voter Priorities for Government Revenue, Newstart
Harming Farming: The cost to agriculture from the government’s emissions reduction plan
The Basin Files
Tony Abbott out of touch with Warringah
Voters in Longman and Mayo oppose ABC privatisation
The impact of Galilee Basin development on employment in existing coal regions
Braddon: New Polling shows concern over Company Tax cuts, support for Penalty rates and a gain in the ALP Primary vote
ABC still Australia’s most trusted news source
July electricity update - Supporting technical paper
The Audit - July electricity update
Majority want CEO salaries capped

Jun
Penalty Rates and Employment: One Year Later
Advanced Skills for Advanced Manufacturing
Victorian Government Further Weakens IBAC
Longman and Mayo: New Polling on Company Tax Cuts and Voter Priorities for Government Revenue
Deception on the Downs: Jobs and the New Acland mine
New Analysis: 95% of Stage 3 Tax Cuts go to high income earners
Bracket Creep: The Imaginary Monster
Mayo poll shows electorate wants ABC protected
Gini out of the bottle - inequality in Australia is getting worse
Advance Australia’s fair share: assessing the fairness of emissions targets
Majority Support for World Heritage Protection for Great Australian Bight
Which electorates benefit from the 2018 income tax cuts?

Past Reports

2018

Dec
Coorongs don’t make a right
National Energy Emissions Audit - December
Not Adani Deal: Queensland Government subsidies to Adani
A Hollywood Ending? The Menindee Lakes Option 7 proposal
Volatile gas: Economics and gas in Western Australia
Private Sector Wage Growth Still in Doldrums

Nov
The economic impacts of unconventional gas in Western Australia
National Energy Emissions Audit - November
HeatWatch: Extreme heat in Western Sydney
Australians Want a Price on Pollution, Regret Abbott’s Repeal
Under the Employer's Eye: Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance in Australian Workplaces
Excessive Hours and Unpaid Overtime: 2018 Update
Will-o’-the-ISP - Estimating renewable energy employment under the Integrated System Plan
Sunk costs: Carbon capture and storage will miss every target set for it
Balance of Power - Senate projections, Spring 2018
Renewable electricity policy for Australia
Frackmail?
Gorgon-tuan Problem
Different Breeds of Watchdog
Who really benefits from negative gearing?
National Energy Emissions Audit - October 2018
Heatwatch: Extreme heat in the Gold Coast

Oct
Options for the implementation of Recommendation 9.8 of NT Fracking Inquiry
HeatWatch: Extreme heat on the Sunshine Coast
HeatWatch: Extreme heat in Roma
Wentworth exit poll: climate inaction and coal key to Liberal vote collapse
Fishing for compliments: Fishing in the Tasmanian economy
Revenue Summit 2018 - Speeches and Papers
Polling: Income Tax and Inequality
Australia, we need to talk about revenue
I'll have what they're having
The Future of Transportation Work: Special Series, WA Transport
Gas and the Wide Bay Burnett Economy
Trickle Out Effect

Sep
Coalapse! The New South Wales winter “energy crisis”
Depoliticising the ABC Board
National Integrity Committee calls for bipartisan support of integrity plan
Stay on Target: Australia set to miss Paris Target
Banking Royal Commission most important for Australians: poll
Heatwatch: Extreme heat in Gladstone
Heatwatch: Extreme heat in Rockhampton
Hume poll: Liberal primary vote drops, voters support more action on climate, not less
An Open Letter to the Western Australian Government calling for permanent ban on fracking
National Energy Emissions Audit - September Electricity Update
Climate of the Nation 2018
GISERA and conflict of interest
Colossal fossil failures
Banking against the Reef
Unspoken alternatives to expensive housing

Aug
Down in the dumps
Wentworth: Liberal primary vote crashes, climate action message clear
Four Views on Basic Income, Job Guarantees, and the Future of Work
Polling brief – Ministerial Recognition
Company tax cuts: last priority for WA voters
SA, TAS, QLD miss out on company tax cuts: new analysis
Company tax cuts: $39.5 billion for big banks
The price of uncertainty Economic modelling and the National Energy Guarantee
National Energy Emissions Audit - August electricity update
What AEMO’S Integrated System Plan Report implies about the National Energy Guarantee
Workers’ slice of Australian economic pie gets smaller
Exploring the Decline in the Labour Share of GDP
Company tax cuts: $7.67 billion to just one company

Jul
Company tax cuts: new analysis shows foreign investors big winners
Mayo: New Polling on Asylum Seekers and Adani
Mayo: New Polling on Company Tax Cuts, Voter Priorities for Government Revenue, Newstart
Harming Farming: The cost to agriculture from the government’s emissions reduction plan
The Basin Files
Tony Abbott out of touch with Warringah
Voters in Longman and Mayo oppose ABC privatisation
The impact of Galilee Basin development on employment in existing coal regions
Braddon: New Polling shows concern over Company Tax cuts, support for Penalty rates and a gain in the ALP Primary vote
ABC still Australia’s most trusted news source
July electricity update - Supporting technical paper
The Audit - July electricity update
Majority want CEO salaries capped

Jun
Penalty Rates and Employment: One Year Later
Advanced Skills for Advanced Manufacturing
Victorian Government Further Weakens IBAC
Longman and Mayo: New Polling on Company Tax Cuts and Voter Priorities for Government Revenue
Deception on the Downs: Jobs and the New Acland mine
New Analysis: 95% of Stage 3 Tax Cuts go to high income earners
Bracket Creep: The Imaginary Monster
Mayo poll shows electorate wants ABC protected
Gini out of the bottle - inequality in Australia is getting worse
Advance Australia’s fair share: assessing the fairness of emissions targets
Majority Support for World Heritage Protection for Great Australian Bight
Which electorates benefit from the 2018 income tax cuts?

May
"Get used to it": Senate projections, Autumn 2018
The Dimensions of Insecure Work: A Factbook
High income earners the big winners from scrapping 37% tax bracket
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding in Budget 2018
Radical plan to increase inequality in Australia revealed in budget
The Economic Importance of Public Services in Regional Communities in NSW
Just to fill you in… Jobs and mine rehabilitation in Queensland
Raising the Bar: How Government Can Use its Economic Leverage to Lift Labour Standards Throughout the Economy
Dam the Consequences
Timing is everything - Liddell Power Station’s record of breaking down when it is needed most
Gender gap in 2018 Budget personal tax plan
Consumers left exposed to fake ‘discounts’ from energy retailers
Most voters oppose cuts to ABC funding: Poll
Longman poll shows income and company tax cuts unpopular
Wages, Taxes, and the Budget
Exporting coal myths: How a coal mine that destroyed a town now claims it will save one
23.9 completely arbitrary
Desperate Measures: Supply measures, diversion limits and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
The Consequences of Fiscal Austerity in Western Australia
Remote control: The Community Development Program, remote Australia’s Work for the Dole scheme
Report: Watt on a hot tin roof

Apr
Rebuilding the NSW Workers Compensation System
POLL - What would large companies do with a tax cut
Small government has small support - National poll
Australia – the low tax country
A Portable Training Entitlement System for the Disability Support Services Sector
Support for stronger emission reductions targets and coal phase out [POLL]
National Integrity Commission Papers
NT fracking emissions would dwarf renewables target
Charity still ends at home

Mar
Big 4 banks gift from company tax cuts: $9.5 billion
To those that have, more shall be given
From Consensus to Action: Report from the First National Manufacturing Summit
That's not how you haggle
Cooked with Gas
Cooked with gas: Extreme heat in Darwin
Executive Pay in Australia
Subsidising Billionaires: Simulating the Net Incomes of UberX Drivers in Australia
Poll shows Australians want fossil fuel companies to pay for warming impacts

Feb
FOI: Adani’s helping hand - Australian government rattle the tin in China and South Korea
Tasmania Polling - Poker Machines, Donations
The house always wins
Moving Targets - Barnaby Joyce, Warrego valley buybacks and amendments to the Murray Darling Basin Plan
The future of transportation work: Technology, work organization, and the quality of jobs
Public hearings key to tackling corruption and public trust
It's not the science, it's how you use it
Braddon lags behind
People power: How Tasmania can fast-track community energy
Northern Disclosure: Rubbery figures in Murray Darling Basin Plan review
Estimating the revenue share of the Farrell Group and other gambling industry participants from gambling operations in Tasmania
Polling – Cutting tax for large companies
Tasmania's toothless watchdog

Jan
Historical Data on the Decline in Australian Industrial Disputes
It's time ... for more politicians
Economies of shale
Australians laid back about Australia Day - poll
Victorian IBAC not the model for federal watchdog – former judge and IBAC adviser
How low income households use electricity
The costs of corruption

2017

Dec
Polling shows Americans and Australians united in opposition to cutting company tax
Blue Carbon, or the Carbon Blues?
Polling - Presents, Wasteful Consumption and Repairs
Styx Coal Project: Submission
Flows at Menindee
Pokies pub test
Polling – National ICAC
NSW Workers' Compensation System has Ample Resources to Maintain Benefits

Nov
Coal and gas a reliability liability in the heat: report
Excessive Hours, Unpaid Overtime and the Future of Work
Trump’s tax plan - Australian perspective
Redirecting Adani’s NAIF loan into other industries
Adani coal mine impact by Queensland electorate

Oct
Polling - Minister Recognition
Australian government becomes foreign finance broker for Adani?
Briefing note: Australia's energy emissions rising not falling
Salmon stakes: Risks for the Tasmanian salmon industry
What does the MCA stand for?
Electric Vehicles in Australia - Report
Polling - Clean Energy Target
Polling shows voters don’t want the Adani mine

Sep
The bearable lightness of lost revenue: Negligible tax losses from poker machine reform
False Economies: The Unintended Consequences of NSW Public Sector Wage Restraint
Meeting our Paris commitment
Wage Suppression a Time Bomb in Superannuation System
Tasmanian Jobs
Tasmania in pole position for electric car industry
Climate of the Nation 2017: Galaxy Research Polling and Data
Wishful zinking - Economics of the McArthur River Mine
June GDP Numbers Confirm Lopsided Economy
The tip of the iceberg: Political donations from the mining industry
Undermining our democracy: Foreign corporate influence through the Australian mining lobby

Aug
Dark side of the boom - Victoria
I’m here for an argument Why bipartisanship on security makes Australia less safe
Ten reasons why a federal ICAC should have the discretion to conduct public hearings
Lessons from the NSW ICAC: 'This watchdog has teeth'
The darkest corners: The case for a federal integrity commission
Accountability and the Law: Anti-corruption agencies in Australia
Re: Establishment of a National Integrity Commission
Ten-point plan to clean up money in federal politics
The case for a federal corruption watchdog: ICAC needed to fill the gaps in our integrity system
Warringah voters set to back marriage equality: poll
Support for conscience vote on marriage equality - Poll
In the dark on Adani deal

Jul
Dam the expense The Ord River irrigation scheme and the development of northern Australia
Electricity costs
Shining a light on corruption
Concern fish farms not modernising a risk to long-term jobs: Lyons poll
ACT schools underperforming
Trusts and Tax Avoidance
Polling: Lyons on Fish Farming
Gambling on the future
Report: Saving mega bucks with negawatts
Palm trees and palm-offs: Australia’s climate action and distraction in the Pacific
Report: South Australia Bank Levy

Jun
The Economic (non)viability of the Adani Galilee Basin Project
Faces of the Senate
Climate of the Nation 2017: Australian attitudes on climate change
Ensure the Crime and Corruption Commission is the strongest it can be to prevent corruption in Queensland
Homeshare is where the NDIS heart is
Manufacturing: A Moment of Opportunity
Economics of unconventional gas development
A progressive Medicare Levy
A progressive Medicare Levy
Labour Share of Australian GDP Hits All-Time Record Low
Securing Tasmania’s energy future
Penalty Rates, Minimum Wages, and Purchasing Power
Still Anti-Asian? Anti-Chinese? One Nation policies on Asian immigration and multiculturalism
Support for a federal ICAC [POLL]
Of Levies, Profits, and Backstops: The Bank Tax in Context
Bank levy to have minor impact on average Australians

May
Money for nothing
Queenslanders don’t want Adani subsidies: Poll
For Hume the Bell Tolls
Should Australian taxpayers finance a South African coal mine?
Paying for zero
Almost two thirds of Australians oppose billion dollar loan subsidy to Adani: poll
Polling shows Australians don’t trust Trump on refugee swap
Capital gains tax discount by electorate
Dollar dreaming: A literature review of economic assessments of indigenous social investment
Royal Pardon: How much an Adani royalty holiday could cost Queenslanders
Housing affordability in Tasmania
Weekend Work and Penalty Pay in 108 Industries

Apr
One Nation in Western Australia: Epic fail or a huge win?
Royalty Flush: Risks to NSW coal royalties from Adani and Galilee Basin development
Trump election ‘negative for the world’: Poll
Polling - President Trump (March 2017)
Do No Harm: Procurement of Medical Goods by Australian Companies and Government
The risk of migratory methane emissions resulting from the development of Queensland coal seam gas
Dark side of the boom
Queensland watchdog asleep at the gate
Renewable Energy Polling

Mar
The Impact of Penalty Rate Cuts on Personal Tax Revenue and Welfare
A "Transition" to Nowhere
Making the future plausible? Putting coal industry claims in context
Easytax resurrected: A look at One Nation’s economic and taxation policies
Women's Wages and the Penalty Rate Cut
Cutting Sunday and Holiday Penalty Rates
Polling Brief - Cutting Sunday and Holiday Penalty Rates
Adani and Governance of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility

Feb
Pauline Hanson’s ‘neo-Austrian’ economic brain
Dawson Polling: One Nation surge, support for RET, opposition to company tax cuts
An own coal?
Dark side of the boom (NSW)
Inequality & poverty in Australia: Still no case for the removal of the clean energy supplement
High price events in the NEM Queensland January 2017 and SA July 2016
Oligopoly money
Turnbull and Abbott's own electorates both back renewable energy target

Jan
Company tax and foreign investment in Australia
The American Far-Right Origins of Pauline Hanson’s Views on Islam

2016

Dec
Taxing times
Your ABC or your ASX
NAIF Polling
The $5 levy on iron ore in WA

Nov
Companies and the Australian immigration detention system

Oct
A review of current and future methane emissions from Australian unconventional oil and gas production
Independence Pay
Queensland Coal Mines Reap Benefit of Hidden Subsidy in Free Groundwater
Australians support a super profits tax on banks
New research supports need for extra bank regulation

Sep
The mining construction boom and regional jobs in Queensland
A Coal Moratorium and the Australian Economy
Leaving the ARENA
Tax cuts and scrapping the Clean Energy Supplement
Human Rights in the Supply Chain of Australian Businesses: Opportunities for Legislative Reform

Aug
Is electricity demand growth returning in Australia?
Inequality & poverty in Australia: The case against the removal of the clean energy supplement

Jul
From climate pariah to climate saviour? What the petroleum industry can do about climate change
Greasing the Wheels
Post-election polling shows agreement on issues, expectation for politicians to negotiate with crossbench

Jun
Unemployment in New England
Polling Brief - Asylum Seeker Policy
Taking an educated guess
Queensland Unemployment by Electorate
The State of Australian Democracy
Great Barrier Bleached
Unemployment by Electorate - South Australia
Economic Management by PM - Centre for Future Work
Nice work if you can get it: Jobs outcomes from renewables growth policies
Polling and Senate Voting Analysis
Cutting through the Company Tax Cuts Guff
Manufacturing (Still) Matters

May
Securing renewables : How batteries solve the problem of clean electricity
How will the corporate tax cut be funded?
Company tax cuts: An Australian gift to the US Internal Revenue Service
Corporate Malfeasance in Australia

Apr
Clean Energy Capital: Public support for ACT clean energy leadership
From Start to Finnish
Jobs Growth in Queensland: Trends and Prospects
House and Senate Polling

Mar
Polling: Voters support a national ICAC
ReachTEL Polling on Company Tax Rates
Company tax cuts: Report shows lack of evidence of ‘Growth Dividend’
Money doesn't grow on trees
Digging for Answers
Economic Modelling Code of Conduct
No Politics at Aunty's Table
Gender Equality at Work - Report

Feb
Sandstorm in a teacup: Ending sand mining and the North Stradbroke Island “economy”
New report examines risks and potential benefits of public broadcasting rationalisation
Briefing Note: Are government plans to tackle bracket creep good for average people?
Tax concessions by age
Surprise me when I’m dead: Revisiting the case for estate duties
The impossible dream: Free electricity sounds too good to be true. It is.

Jan
Finland's Fine Example
Capital Gains Tax - Main Residence Exemption

2015

Dec
CEDEX Australian GHG emission report - December 2015
Two Birds, One Little Black Rock

Nov
Cutting the company tax rate: Why would you?
Workin' 9 to 5.30 - Unpaid overtime and work life balance
Be careful of what you wish for
Carmichael in Context
Free Trade Agreements Costs and benefits
Homeshare Report

Oct
Wentworth, North Sydney support for new coal mine moratorium: Poll
When you are in a hole stop digging
Too Close for Comfort
University Deregulation - Polling Brief

Sep
Who says? Public support for environmental advocacy
Subsidise this
Charity ends at home - The decline of foreign aid in Australia
Heartland - Why the bush needs its ABC

Aug
Switching off gas - An examination of declining gas demand in Eastern Australia
Passing gas: Economic myths around the Northern Territory's North East Gas Interconnector pipeline
Key administration statistics – 3rd Party Appeals and the EPBC Act
The role of ridesharing in addressing Canberra’s transport challenges
Take the pressure down: RET Policy Brief

Jul
The goon show - How the tax system works to subsidise cheap wine and alcohol consumption
The goon show: How the tax system works to subsidise cheap wine and alcohol consumption
Power down II - Australia’s electricity demand

Jun
Get Regular Excise:The case to reindex the fuel excise
Outclassed: How Queensland’s schools and social services are affected by mining industry assistance and lobbying
Powers of deduction: Tax deductions, environmental organisations and the mining industry
Powers of deduction: Tax deductions, environmental organisations and the mining industry
Leading by Degrees: Universities and Fossil Fuel Divestment

May
Tax: the need for change
Pensions and superannuation: the need for change
Do we need to burn forests to save the environment
A super waste of money: Redesigning super tax concessions
It's the revenue stupid: Ideas for a brighter budget

Apr
Who’s getting negative? The benefits of negative gearing by federal electorate
Top Gears: How negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount benefit drive up house prices
Franking Credits Briefing Paper
Closing the tax loopholes: A Buffett rule for Australia

Mar
The great Australian lockout: Inequality in the housing market
Australia’s Tobin Tax: Arguments and evidence
Population Growth in Australia
Everyday Sexism
Coal in the Southern Highlands economy

Feb
Large Scale Solar and the RET

Jan
The Dash from Gas: Could demand in New South Wales fall to half?
Are there 27,000 jobs in the Galilee Basin?
Queensland Taxpayers’ $2 billion Abbot Point Subsidies Bill
How to extend the GST without hurting the poor

2014

Dec
Unlocking care: continuing mental health care for prisoners and their families
Wind energy, climate and health: evidence for the impacts of wind generated energy in Australia
Solar energy in Australia: health and environmental costs and benefits
The budget’s hidden gender agenda

Nov
Briefing Note: Victorian Liberal Party promises new trains
The RET’s effect on Tasmania
Walking the tightrope: Have Australians achieved work/life balance?
Any way the wind blows: Power generation in South Australia
All talk, no action: the coal industry and energy poverty

Oct
Economics, agriculture and native vegetation in NSW
The mouse that roars: Coal in the Queensland economy

Sep
Boosting retirement incomes the easy way
Feeling safe again

Aug
Productivity in the construction industry

Jul
Will we let the sun shine in?
Redropdownblock of the Boston Consulting Group’s report to the Minister for Communications Briefing for the CWU on Australia Post’s operations
BRIEFING NOTE: Distributional impact of PUP savings measures
Fighting Dirty on Clean Energy
Income and wealth inequality in Australia
BRIEFING NOTE: Banks at risk of losing customers through investment in coal projects on the Reef

Jun
Mining the age of entitlement
Seeing through the dust: Coal in the Hunter Valley economy
Advance Australia Fair? What to do about growing inequality in Australia

May
Auditing the auditors: The People's Commission of Audit

Apr
Sustaining us all in retirement

Mar
Grow your own
Briefing Note: Debunking Solving for 'x' - The NSW Gas Supply Cliff
Fracking the future
Climate Proofing Your Investments: Moving Funds out of Fossil Fuels

Feb
A democracy deficit?
SURVEY: Australians want new WA Senate Election

2013

Dec
Power down
Chipping away at Tasmania's future
SURVEY: Most Aussies not aware of TPP implications
Biting the land that feeds you
Survey results: Women & Equity

Nov
Is fracking good for your health?
Hard to get a break?

Oct
What Australians don't know about CSG

Aug
Cut, Cut, Cut
Election 2013 youth survey - voting preferences
Coal and gas mining in Australia
Youth survey 2013 election- issues & policies
Tough on crime
What's choice got to do with it?

Jul
Survey results: Australians trust ABC over commercial media
$2.9 billion CSG surcharge
Election 2013 youth survey - interest & enrolment
Logging or carbon credits
Cooking up a price rise

Jun
Pouring more fuel on the fire
Election 2013 youth survey - part 1

May
The Australian native forest sector: Causes of decline and prospects for the future
Tax cuts that broke the budget

Apr
Electricity and privatisation: what happened to those promises?

Mar
Super for some
Trouble with childcare
Time to get engaged with super?

Feb
Still beating around the bush
Culture of resistance
Corporate power in Australia

2012

Dec
The case against cutting the corporate tax rate
Tasmanian Forest Agreement 2012: Who is the winner?
The rise and rise of the big banks
Carbon credits from Western Australia's multiple use public native forests: a first pass assessment

Nov
An unhealthy obsession: The impact of work hours and workplace culture on Australia's health
Beating around the bush

Oct
Who knew Australians were so co-operative? The size and scope of mutually owned co-ops in Australia
Cash-in-hand means less cash for states

Aug
Measuring Fugitive Emissions: Is coal seam gas a viable bridging fuel?
The profit in home lending
Can the taxpayer afford self-funded retirement?
James Price Point: An economic analysis of the Browse LNG project

Jun
All the lonely people: Loneliness in Australia, 2001-2009

Apr
Are unemployment benefits adequate in Australia?
Pouring Fuel on the Fire
Showing their helping hand: The selective promotion of government assistance
Match making: Using data-matching to find people missing out on government assistance
Too much of a good thing? The macroeconomic case for slowing down the mining boom

Mar
Job creator or job destroyer: An analysis of the mining boom in Queensland
Justice for all

Feb
CSG economic modelling; On the alleged benefits of the Santos coal seam gas project in North West NSW
The use and abuse of economic modelling in Australia

Jan
Casual Labour: A stepping stone to something better or part of an underclass
Rubbery Figures: An examination of the claimed and likely cost of poker machine reform in Australia

2011

Dec
An analysis of the economic impacts of the China First mine

Nov
Carbon Bloating: The unintended consequences of giving away free permits to big polluters
Polluted time: Blurring the boundaries between work and life

Oct
Bulky billing: Missing out on fair and affordable health care
What Price Dignity?

Sep
The Australian wine tax regime: Assessing industry claims
Mining the truth: The rhetoric and reality of the commodities boom

Aug
Mining Australia's productivity
The direct costs of waiting for direct action
What you don't know can hurt you: How market concentration threatens internet diversity

Jul
The wage-penalty effect: The hidden cost of maternity leave
The real cost of direct action: An analysis of the Coalition's Direct Action Plan

Jun
How many jobs is 23,510, really? Recasting the mining job loss debate

May
On the wrong track: The case for abandoning the promised $7 billion subsidies to Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power stations
The rise and rise of online retail
Surplus fetish: The political economy of the surplus, deficit and debt

Apr
The industries that cried wolf

Feb
The price of disloyalty: Why competition has failed to lower ATM fees
Complementary or contradictory? An analysis of the design of climate policies in Australia

2010

Dec
Australian Financial Integrity Network

Nov
The Australian Government's solar PV rebate program
Long time, no see: The impact of time poverty on Australian workers
Rough Trade: How Australia's trade policies contribute to illegal logging in the Pacific Region

Oct
What Australians don't know about CSG
Removing poverty traps in the tax transfer system

Sep
Running on empty? The peak oil debate

Aug
Once more with feeling: Principles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the wellbeing of most Australians
The regional impact of public service job cuts
Money and Power: The case for better regulation in banking
Why a carbon tax is good for the hip pocket

Jul
Green jobs: What are they and do we need them?

May
Missing out: Unclaimed government assistance and concession benefits
Measuring what Matters: Do Australians have good access to primary health care?
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries: A cautionary tale from Australia

Mar
Effective emissions targets needed to protect Australia's blood supply
A licence to print money: Bank profits in Australia

Feb
Measuring what matters

Jan
Reining it in: Executive pay in Australia

2009

Nov
What you should know about nano
Something for Nothing: Unpaid overtime in Australia
What a waste: An analysis of household expenditure on food

Oct
Greening motoring costs
What does $50,000 buy in a population survey?
Woolly figures
Harder to do than to say?
Road congestion charges: An idea whose time has come

Sep
The case for a universal default superannuation fund

Aug
The impact of the recession on women
Zero-sum game? The human dimensions of emissions trading

Jul
A fair-weather friend? Australia's relationship with a climate-changed Pacific
State of denial

Jun
The benefits of the mining boom: Where did they go?

May
Future Economic Thought- discussion paper

Apr
Tax equity: Reforming capital gains taxation in Australia
Long overdue: The macroeconomic benefits of paid parental leave

Feb
The great superannuation tax concession rort
Increasing the Newstart Allowance: A necessary part of equitable fiscal stimulus

Jan
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Per Capita of Annex B Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

2008

Dec
Choosing Not to Choose: Making superannuation work by default
Go Away, Please: The social and economic impact of intrusive marketing

Nov
Fixing the Floor in the ETS

Oct
Agriculture and Emissions Trading: The impossible dream?
The case for a new top tax rate
The role of a higher age pension in stimulating the economy
The tax treatment of capital investments in renewable energy
The Dangers of Character Tests: Dr Haneef and other cautionary tales

Sep
Who are the (un)intended losers from emissions trading?

Aug
Agreeing to Disagree: Maintaining dissent in the NGO sector
The Impact of an Emissions Trading Scheme on State Government Budgets

May
Choice Overload: Australians coping with financial decisions
Where does the buck stop? Community attitudes to over-lending and over-spending

Mar
Character as Destiny: The dangers of character tests in Commonwealth law

Jan
Stuff Happens: Unused things cluttering up our homes
Carbon Liabilities of NSW Electricity Generators
Aviation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the ACT

2007

Oct
The State of the Australian Middle Class
Climate Change and Australian Coastal Shipping

Sep
Under the Radar. Dog-whistle politics in Australia
Obesity, a cure for loss of identity

Aug
'Clean coal' and other greenhouse myths
Carbon Offsets: Saviour or cop-out?

Jul
Do politicians deserve to go to heaven? Public attitudes to prominent Australians.
Using cheap private health insurance to avoid the Medicare Levy Surcharge: What is the cost to taxpayers?
Australia's 21st Century Carbon Budget: How much have we consumed?
Fear of Climate Change: A rejoinder to George Monbiot

Jun
University Capture. Australian universities and the fossil fuel industry.
Greenhouse Strategies: What do Australians prefer?

May
A Statement by University Economists on Climate Change
A Flight Risk? Aviation and climate change in Australia
Attitudes to Nuclear Power: Are they shifting?

Mar
Effective emissions targets needed to protect Australia's blood supply
Critique of the McKibbin-Wilcoxen Hybrid Emissions Trading Scheme

Feb
Mobile phones and the consumer kids

Jan
Siting Nuclear Power Plants in Australia - Where would they go?
Siting Nuclear Power Plants in Australia - Where would they go?
Who Wants a Nuclear Power Plant: Support for nuclear power in Australia
Response to Federal Government's Critique of The National Greenhouse Accounts and Land Clearing: Do the numbers stack up?
The National Greenhouse Accounts and Land Clearing: Do the numbers stack up?

2006

Dec
Heating up: bushfires and climate change
Letting Children be Children: Stopping the sexualisation of children in Australia

Nov
All Quiet In the Ranks: An exploration of dissent in Australia's security agencies

Oct
Wind Farms: The facts and the fallacies
The Politics of the Past and the Future
Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of children in Australia

Sep
The Attitudes of Australians to Happiness and Social Well-being
Baby Boomers and Retirement: Dreams, fears and anxieties

Aug
Baby Boomers: The not so lucky generation

Jul
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act: An ongoing failure
School Vouchers: An evaluation of their impact on education outcomes
State and territory tourism assistance: A zero sum game

Jun
Who Listens to Alan Jones
ABC Learning Centres: A case study of Australia's largest child care corporation

May
Competitiveness and Carbon Pricing: Border adjustments for greenhouse policies
Cross Media Ownership: New media or more of the same?

Apr
Child Care Quality in Australia
Equality of Opportunity in Australia: Myth and reality

Mar
Drug Law Reform: Beyond Prohibition

Feb
The Dirty Politics of Climate Change: Speech to the Climate Change and Business Conference, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, 20 February 2006
Skip Dipping in Australia

2005

Dec
Unwanted Christmas Presents: Getting the Most out of Christmas

Sep
Why the Telstra agreement will haunt the National Party: Lessons from the Democrats' GST Deal
Who Drives 4WDs?

Aug
Playing Politics with the Federal Heritage Regime
Response to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage’s Media Release concerning The Australia Institute Report, Playing Politics with the Federal Heritage Regime

Jul
Why Australians Will Never Be Prosperous
Greenhouse implications of the proposed Sydney desalination plant
Mapping Homophobia in Australia
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act: A Five Year Assessment

Jun
Who is Better at Managing the Australian Economy: Labor or the Coalition?
Privatising Land in the Pacific: A defence of customary tenures

May
The Attitudes of Young People to the Environment
Can humans survive automation?: Speech to the Manning Clark House conference Science and Ethics: Can Homo Sapiens Survive?
Victoria’s Greenhouse Policy: The moment of truth
How big should Canberra Be?

Apr
Off to Work: Commuting in Australia

Mar
Who benefits from private health insurance in Australia?
Wasteful Consumption in Australia

Feb
Demographic trends in private health insurance membership
Climate Change Policy Beyond Kyoto: A new global plan
Mapping Loneliness in Australia

Jan
Speech at the launch of In search of sustainability ed. by J Goldie, B Douglas and B Furnass
Meeting the climate challenge: Recommendation of the International Climate Change Taskforce
The Indian Ocean tsunami and sea level rise: Lessons to be learned
Making Fines Fairer

2004

Nov
Property Rights and the Environment: Should farmers have a right to compensation?
20th November: Take-the-rest-of-the-year-off day

Oct
Trading in Food Safety? The impact of trade agreements on quarantine in Australia

Sep
Geosequestration: What is it and how much can it contribute to a sustainable energy policy for Australia?
Climate Change Policy in Australia: Isolating the Great Southern Land, National Institute for Environment Public Lecture, 5th August 2004

Aug
The Disappointment of Liberalism and the quest for inner freedom
The Accountability of Private Schools to Public Values
Speech at the Dinner to Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of The Australia Institute
Work and family futures: How young Australians plan to work and care

Jul
Overconsumption of pet food in Australia
Taming the Panda: The relationship between WWF Australia and the Howard Government

Jun
Silencing Dissent: Non-government organisations and Australian democracy
Greenhouse gas emissions in industrialised countries: Where does Australia stand?
Public policy, complexity and rulebase technology

May
Notes of LETAG Meeting
Carpe Diem? The Deferred Happiness Syndrome
Public Attitudes to Discrimination in Private Schools
Lost children: Condemning children to long-term disadvantage

Mar
International Climate Change Taskforce. Media release and background papers
The benefits of an ageing population

Feb
Consumer capitalism: Is this as good as it gets? The 15th Maurice Blackburn Oration
Can't Buy Me Love? Young Australians' dropdownblocks on parental work, time, guilt and their own consumption
Getting a Life: Understanding the downshifting phenomenon in Australia

Jan
Buying an education: Where are the returns highest?

2003

Dec
A backdoor to higher medicine prices? Intellectual property and the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
Democratising excellence? Chamber music and arts policy in Australia

Nov
Using rewards to catch white collar criminals
Downshifting in Britain: A sea-change in the pursuit of happiness
Fatherhood and fatherlessness

Oct
An abrupt climate change scenario and its implications for United States national security

Sep
Health Spending in the Bush: an analysis of the geographic distribution of the private health insurance rebate
Overconsumption in Britain: A culture of middle-class complaint?

Jul
Annual leave in Australia: An analysis of entitlements, usage and preferences
The double dividend: an analysis of the job creation potential of purchasing additional holiday leave
Comparing Drug Prices in Australia and the USA: The implications of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Jun
Comfortable, relaxed and drugged to the eye-balls

May
Trading in Our Health System? The impact of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Can Porn Set Us Free?: A speech to the Sydney Writers Festival, May 25th 2003

Apr
The New Anti-Internationalism: Australia and the United Nations Human Rights Treaty System

Mar
Regulating Youth Access to Pornography

Feb
Funding sport fairly: an income-contingent loans scheme for elite sports training
Sunshine, Containment, War: Options on Korea
Youth and Pornography in Australia: Evidence on the extent of exposure and likely effects

Jan
Putting pressure on rogues
Environmentalism and scientific truth
Downshifting in Australia: A sea-change in the pursuit of happiness
Missing the target: An analysis of Australian Government greenhouse spending

2002

Dec
Tax Flight? An analysis of the 'duty free' system in Australia
Overconsumption in Australia: the rise of the middle-class battler

Nov
Health Insurance Tax Rort

Oct
Long-Term Greenhouse Gas Scenarios

Aug
Updating Per Capita Emissions for Industrialised Countries
272 Economists Sign Climate Change Statements

Jul
The Economics of Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Jun
New Families for Changing Times

Mar
Taxes and Charges for Environmental Protection

Feb
Cashing in on Koalas

Jan
The Aluminium Smelting Industry: Structure, market power, subsidies and greenhouse gas emissions

2001

Dec
Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?

Nov
With Friends Like Bjorn Lomborg, Environmentalists Don't Need Enemies
Why cutting Australia's greenhouse gases will be good for regional jobs

Oct
Climate Change and Commonwealth Nations
Regional Employment and Greenhouse Policies
Corporate Control of Healthcare in Australia
How fair is health spending? The distribution of tax subsidies for health in Australia

Sep
The idea of a university: Enterprise or academy?
Comprehensive emissions per capita for industrialised countries

Aug
The Medicare levy surcharge arrangement: Tax penalty or hidden tax subsidy?

Mar
Academic Freedom and Commercialisation of Australian Universities: Perceptions and experiences of social scientists

Feb
Measuring Employment in the 21st Century: New measures of underemployment and overwork

2000

Dec
Tracking Well-being in Australia: The Genuine Progress Indicator 2000

Oct
Taxing Concern? The Performance of the Green Power Scheme in Australia
Corporate Welfare: Public Accountability for Industry Assistance

Sep
Tax expenditures and public health financing in Australia

Aug
Mutual Obligation - Ethical and social implications

Jul
The Decade of Landcare: Looking Backward - Looking Forward

Jun
Avoiding Recessions and Australian Long-Term Unemployment

May
Indicators of a Sustainable Community: Measuring Quality of Life in Newcastle

Mar
Regulating Blood

Feb
The Implications of the GST for Charities

1999

Dec
Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Nov
Comparing Native Title and Anglo-Australian Land Law
Greenhouse gas emissions per capita of Annex B Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
Common Misconceptions in the Climate Change Debate
Subsidies to the aluminium industry and climate change

Oct
Accounting for Kyoto and Emissions Trading

Sep
Quality of Life in Australia: An analysis of public perceptions
Public Expenditure on Services for Indigenous People: Education, Employment, Health and Housing

Aug
Business Tax Reform and the Environment: Emissions trading as a tax reform option

Jun
The Environmental Implications of the Revised ANTS Package
Competing Interests: Competition policy in the welfare sector

Mar
Joint Submission to the Senate Select Committee On a New Tax System
Measuring Container Port Productivity: The Australian Experience

Feb
Economic Growth: The Dark Side of the Australian Dream

1998

Dec
The Privatisation of ACTEW: The fiscal, efficiency and service quality implications of the proposed sale of ACT Electricity and Water

Sep
The GST Package and Air Pollution

Aug
The Evolution of the Global Market for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances

Jul
The Kyoto Protocol: Implications for Australia and the world

Jun
Looking Forward with a Glance Backward: An environmental scan for Australia

May
A Poisoned Chalice: Australia and the Kyoto Protocol

Apr
Tax Reform, the GST and Women

Mar
Gambling Taxation in Australia
Indigenous Property Rights: New developments in planning and valuation
From Kyoto to Hobart: Economic Renewal through Environmental Leadership in Tasmania

1997

Dec
Economic Analysis of Greenhouse Policy: A layperson's guide to the perils of economic modelling

Sep
The Genuine Progress Indicator for Australia

Aug
Climate Change Policies in Australia

Jul
Koalas and Tourism: An economic evaluation

May
Economic Rationalism: Social philosophy masquerading as economic science

Apr
Ecological Tax Reform in Australia: Using taxes and public spending to protect the environment without hurting the economy
Native Title: Implications for land management
A Policy Without a Future: Australia's International Position on Climate Change

Jan
Towards a professional Australian public service: Response to a Discussion Paper by Mr Peter Reith

1996

Oct
The Path to Full Employment: A talk to the ACOSS Congress

Jul
What should governments do? Auditing the Audit Commission
Mining in Kakadu: Lessons from Coronation Hill

Jun
Redistributing Work: Solutions to the paradox of overwork and unemployment in Australia

Mar
Citizens in the Marketplace: The implications of competition policy for citizenship

1995

Dec
A tradeable emissions entitlement scheme for greenhouse gases from the NSW electricity industry

Nov
Logging and water

Aug
Private sector involvement in public sector infrastructure

Jul
The economic language of Landcare

Jun
The privatisation of CSL

Feb
Australia's greenhouse strategy: can the future be rescued?

1994

Dec
Comparison of emission sources and emission trends among OECD countries

Sep
Does Privatisation Pay?

May
"Trash" fights back