Australian Institute for Progress

Publications

• Strategic Climate/Energy Policy Issues Paper

  The task to make Australia 100% clean-energy is much larger than generally thought requiring approximately 250% more electricity generation than at present.

• Beware the wounded senior

  Retirement income and savings policies could be deciding factors in this coming federal election. Forty-eight per cent of the seats in parliament have a median voter age of 50 years or older.

• ALP franking credit policy is taxation theft

  Labor’s franking credits policy abolishes the tax free threshold for a certain class of low income earners and sets the minimum tax rate at 30% with no threshold.

• Qualitative polling on Victorian election

  The odds are that Labor will win the Victorian election, but there is a narrow gate through which the Liberal Nationals could pass to government, or the Greens to a role in supporting a minority Labor government.