Climate of the Nation 2021
Climate of the Nation is Australia's longest running tracking poll of community attitudes towards climate change. This year Climate of the Nation expl...
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The Australia Institute’s Follow the Money podcast explains Australia’s big economic issues in plain English. We bust myths, dissect politics, interpret econobabble and help you sound really smart at your next dinner party, with host Ebony Bennett.
The AUKUS pact and China
The announcement of the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the USA is now a few weeks old and it represents an enormous departure in th...
Junk Carbon Credits
Today's episode examines carbon offsets, in other words, the credits companies can buy to offset their emissions. The Australia Institute, together wi...
The importance of the crossbench with Senator Jacqui Lambie [webinar series]
The number of independent Members and Senators elected to Parliament has been steadily increasing and the crossbench plays an important role in shapin...
AUKUS and the nuclear submarine debacle
Australia blind-sided France and the Australian public by dumping a $90 billion French submarine deal in favour of a new trilateral security partnersh...
An Avoidable Catastrophe: Pandemic Job Losses in Higher Education
Australia's higher education sector has been amongst those hit hardest by the pandemic. Just how bad is the damage? In a new report, the Australia Ins...
Fracked: Gas in the Northern Territory
Extracting gas from the Northern Territory through hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is one of the largest potential sources of carbon pollution in th...
Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine
Our ability to ‘Test, Trace, Isolate and Quarantine’ people who have been exposed to Covid19 has been the front line of Australia’s defence against Co...
The Wealth Explosion
The wealth of Australians (or at least some of them) has grown by an extraordinary $9.5 trillion or 302% in the past 33 years according to a new repor...
Reset with Professor Ross Garnaut
Professor Ross Garnaut is an economist and author of new book Reset - which explores the opportunity Australia has to reset its economy in the wake of...