The Australian Government is budgeting for green hydrogen production of around 500,000 tonnes per year into the 2040s. Given the first users of green hydrogen will be existing industrial users of fossil hydrogen, this leaves no hydrogen for export from Australia. This briefing note formed part of the Australia Institute’s submission to the Hydrogen Production...

The research outlined in this report reveals that the Australian governments charge no royalties on 56% of the gas that is exported from Australia. Over the last four years, multinational companies made $149 billion exporting gas they got for free. If royalties had been charged on this gas, at least $13.3 billion in revenue could...

The authors of this paper argue that Australia is not taking serious action on climate change. Instead, the majority of its governments continue to subsidise the fossil fuel industry and greenwash their poor climate policies. The authors suggest that cutting fossil fuel subsidies would not only help achieve genuine reductions in emissions, but would save...

The gas industry’s abuse of the West Australian community has gone on for too long. The authors of this paper argue that it's time for an honest public conversation about gas in WA. This report focuses on gas in the WA economy as part of a series that hopes to contribute to this public discussion.

This paper provides some basic background on Australia’s Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA) problem and current policies designed to address it before critiquing the most recent economic study on RIFA eradication and showing how small changes to its methodology result in cost benefit ratios that strongly support RIFA eradication.