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Richard Denniss is an Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, who is the Executive Director of The Australia Institute.… more

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I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
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Catch co-CEO Richard Denniss at the Third National Forum on Australia's Wellbeing!

Richard and other experts will discuss policies to enable people and the planet to thrive! 🌏

📅21-23 October 2025
📍Ann Harding Conference Centre, Canberra

Get your ticket! ⏬ #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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"What this report says is that flooding will be so common in large parts of Australia, you will not be able to insure.

"You can only insure against unlikely events."

-co-CEO Richard Denniss appearing at the Senate Environment Committee
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Most days…
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I’ll be presenting on the NCRA with my friend Prof. Lucas Walsh and economist Richard Dennis @richarddenniss.bsky.social at the Royal Society of Victoria this Tuesday 6pm - come on down
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New Australia Institute analysis reveals the supposed 'financial crisis' at the Australian National University is a lie.

The ANU had a $90 million SURPLUS in 2024!

📺 Richard Denniss, co-Chief Executive Officer appearing on WIN News

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New government data confirms what everyone already knew...multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax.

"People are getting increasingly sick of it."

🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute
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🔴 Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from $48 billion in sales.

🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales.

Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...
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David Pope in Canberra Times
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New Australia Institute analysis shows the ANU had a $90 million profit in 2024 and INCREASED the value of its net assets...

All while the ANU was claiming a budget crisis to justify staff cuts!

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The Australian National University has been crying poor to justify cutting staff, while hiding millions in profit.

"They'll tell you the $170 million they got in investment returns, $16 million in donations, and $40 million in other expenditure shouldn't count."

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Big congrats to Santos Ltd!!

10 years. $46.7 billion in sales.

ZERO TAX

New ATO data out today.
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The ANU says it's in crisis. Does this look like a financial crisis to you?
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Important new independent analysis from David Richardson and @richarddenniss.bsky.social at @australiainstitute.org.au

They argue that ANU’s books “appear designed to present a ‘crisis’ that is contradicted by the audited financial statements.”

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Cooking the books at the Australian National University - An analysis of the ANU accounts
Audited financial statements show that the ANU made a ‘profit’ of $90 million in 2024 and $136 million in 2023. Despite such strong financial results, ANU
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ANU has cut courses & 100s of staff, with a supposed "operating deficit" used to justify it.

However our research found that ANU had a $90m surplus in 2024 in the audited accounts.

“It's not clear why a Govt owned not-for-profit would be seeking to generate a surplus" – @richarddenniss.bsky.social
The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus
New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.
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“In a research paper from the @australiainstitute.org.au called *Cooking the books at the Australian National University*, David Richardson and @richarddenniss.bsky.social said the ANU's argument about its unhealthy financial position was "flimsy".”

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907948...
'Cooking the books': national think tank questions ANU finances
'They should make clear how they use such donations.'
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‘Anyone worried about the cost of the NDIS rising should be a lot more worried about what's in this Climate Risk Assessment.’

‘Someone is going to pay for the houses that get destroyed.’

- Richard Denniss co-Chief Executive Officer

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September 30, 1991 – Hawke’s ministers * "Ecologically Sustainable Development"

"the heads of the ESD working groups warned that the community must be more closely involved if the plan to write sustainable policies for resource-based industries was to succeed"

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Thirty four years ago, on this day, September 30, 1991, The cost of repairing damage to the environment must be included in the price of resources, the Federal Government was told yesterday. The message was delivered to senior ministers during a private meeting with the heads of the Government’s working groups on ecologically sustainable development. They warned that the community must be more closely involved if the plan to write sustainable policies for resource-based industries was to succeed. The working group heads put their views directly to ministers and the Prime Minister, shortly before Mr Hawke had talks with representatives of business, unions, and green groups. 1991 Peake,R. 1991. Report Backs Green Levy On Consumers. The Age, 1 October, p.18. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 355ppm. As of 2025, when this post was published, it is 430ppm. This matters because the more carbon dioxide in the air, the more heat gets trapped. The more heat, the more extreme weather events. You can make it more complicated than that if you want, but really, it’s not. Fwiw, I have a tattoo of the Keeling Curve on my left forearm.
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Phew:) which one?
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🤯'Mr Albanese emphasised the middle path in governing'
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(today's The W.E. Australian)
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There's no point in our governments setting 'ambitious' emissions reduction targets if they won't actually take reducing emissions seriously.

Expanding fossil fuels and relying on bogus carbon credits is NOT taking it seriously.

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‘The way that the media deals with the climate is it’s an environmental story and it’s a future story. Whereas this is a housing story, a cost-of-living story, an inequality story, a role of government story…’

- Richard Denniss, Executive Director

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Sorry to be frustrating
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The Aus Institute's @richarddenniss.bsky.social talked to Leon Compton about this issue last year -- noting that Tas MPs still well paid by Australian standards.

"There's no magic formula" to decide MP pay, but without indexation it gets arbitrarily smaller over time. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Should Tasmanian politicians get a pay rise? - ABC listen
They haven't had one since 2018.
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Join us next Thursday with some of the nation’s leading thinkers as they share a big idea for a better Australia.

@juliannes.bsky.social
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@richarddenniss.bsky.social
@alicektg.bsky.social

Free webinar, RSVP here:
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The "sensible centre" is not the same as evidence-based policy.

With online gambling, junk food advertising or incarcerating children, evidence of harm is clear, but centrist positions are defined by politics rather than evidence.

This Friday, join @richarddenniss.bsky.social for a free webinar ⤵️
Dead Centre with Richard Denniss
The sensible centre. Evidence-based policy. These are not the same. In fact, they are at odds with each other. The scientific evidence tells us that building new gas, oil and coal mines will cause cat...
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Great piece from @rossgittins.bsky.social in the SMH today.

It references a new report from @richarddenniss.bsky.social on how Australian governments game their climate targets to conceal their lack of climate action.

Read: australiainstitute.org.au/report/targe...
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31 yrs ago today (Sept 22, 1994) another “sky will fall” report released, to challenge even the mildest of climate policies - a small carbon tax.

Aust incumbents have fought - and won- for decades. Sad abt the planet, but these things happen I guess...

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The Federal Government’s response to the greenhouse gas problem will inevitably cut billions of dollars from Australia’s economic growth but a carbon tax would devastate the economy, according to a major new report. The study, by the Melbourne-based National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, says that current government ambitions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are “unrealistic” and cannot be achieved without major economic costs. It confirms there are no easy choices facing the Government in dealing with the greenhouse problem, particularly in the short term. Commissioned by the Electricity Supply Association of Australia, the two-year, $400,000 research project, suggests that a longer-term greenhouse response would mitigate the impact on the national economy. The new analysis will be publicly released today. … coal industry closed down by 2000. Gill, P. 1994. Carbon tax to ruin economy says new study. The Australian Financial Review, 22 September, p.6.
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Australia and its climate targets - a dismal history (1988-2025)

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Australia and its climate targets - a dismal history - All Our Yesterdays
The Australian federal government led by Labor’s Anthony Albanese has just announced an “emissions reduction” target for 2035 of “62-70%.” You can read about the ins and outs of this in Crikey, Crikey...
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Thanks Andrew :)
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