The bosses of Australia’s biggest gas producers have been asked to front a Senate inquiry into a proposed 25 per cent export tax amid soaring profits driven by the global energy crisis. In a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Taxation of Gas Resources, the Australia Institute estimated that such a tax could raise up to $17 billion per year.

BP have correctly uncovered that a tax on gas exports would raise more revenue than the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). However, some of their other claims in their submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources were misleading...

A Federal Court judge is considering a legal challenge by the The Wilderness Society over whether Australia’s offshore regulator failed to ensure Santos had funds to clean up its Reindeer gas field, before approving its environmental plan.

In March, the Albanese Government pulled their “friendless” crackdown on freedom of information (FOI) rights. While it is comforting that things will not get even worse, change is needed to address the culture of secrecy and denial that successive governments have allowed to fester in the public service.

This is the second of three articles examining the value private health insurance and private healthcare bring to the Australian health system.

As global crises mount, international aid spending has entered a historic decline, with Australia’s contribution among the lowest in the world. “DFAT must restore its aid budget and shore up the global humanitarian system that faces its most serious crisis in decades,” said Oxfam Australia’s Head of Humanitarian, Lucia Goldsmith.