Gemma Killen

Jan 13, 2025 | australiainstitute.org.au | Gemma Killen

Around 80% of Australia’s gas is exported overseas. Our research shows the gas corporations have paid ZERO royalties on over half (56%) of all gas exports. In fact, the government collects more revenue from HECS than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Chip in today and fund the research to ensure the gas industry pays its fair share. $30/mo $50/mo $100/mo $50 $100 $500 I'd like to donate a different amount.

Jan 9, 2025 | australiainstitute.org.au | Gemma Killen

Despite its claims to the contrary, the mining industry is a relatively small and unimportant part of Australia’s economy. It pays very little tax, receives considerable subsidies, employs few people, and is largely foreign-owned. Taxes and royaltiesMining company tax payments make up less than three cents in every dollar of government revenue on average. Over the last decade the mining industry paid $254 billion in tax, while totalgovernment revenue reached almost $6.8 trillion.

Jan 9, 2025 | australiainstitute.org.au | Gemma Killen

Some people are worried that the next election could lead to a “hung parliament”, requiring power sharing arrangements between parties and independents. But Parliaments always involve power-sharing: between interest groups, communities and political movements; across the upper and lower houses; within parties (via factions); and between parties. In a coalition government, parties make a formal agreement to share power.

Jan 8, 2025 | australiainstitute.org.au | Gemma Killen

When governments subsidise fossil fuels—coal, gas, diesel, petrol—they not only waste public money, they also make climate change worse. Subsidies and tax breaks make fossil fuels cheaper, making it harder to switch to renewable energy and cleaner technologies. Ending fossil fuel subsidies is common sense and good policy.

Nov 14, 2024 | australiainstitute.org.au | Yasmine Wright Gittins |Gemma Killen |Tom Hawking |David Richardson

The Pacific-Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme is often presented as being beneficial to all parties—Australia, Pacific workers, and those workers’ home countries. In reality, the benefits are weighted in favour of Australia. Fruit pickers and meat workers who fill chronic labour shortages in Australia are being overtaxed and exploited, new research from The Australia Institute has found.