Australian Institute for Progress

21/07/2026

Great launch last night of Professor Timothy Florins paper on Low Emissions Electricity. Congratulations to Tim on writing the paper which exposes many of the myths we are being told about electricity generation. Good to have Drew Hutton to launch the paper. Conversations on electricity need to be as wide as possible. We may have differing views, but we are all Australians, and share the same country.

One of the myths is that renewable energy can power the country reliably and for a reasonable price. Another is that we have made great strides in implementing it. In the end, if you are serious about low carbon electricity all the signposts point to nuclear.

31/10/2025

Some of the happy attendees at our Sir Thomas McIlwraith Lecture. Each year generous members contribute toward a scholarship fund so that we can introduce a new generation to Sir Thomas, and an inspiring guest speaker, in this case Steve Baxter of Shark Tank fame.

01/05/2025

The Greens' landlord taxes will ultimately be a tax on your ability to save for a house. $83 a week higher rent, or $4,316 that could be saved on a housing deposit. Can you afford the Greens?

01/05/2025

With house prices out of reach for most young people we need more affordable houses for rent, not fewer. Can you afford the Greens?

01/05/2025

In San Francisco when they capped rental increases 15% of houses were withdrawn from the rental pool. When the Greens cap rent increases in Australia that would mean 450,000 houses out of the rental pool. That's around 3 years worth of housing supply. That's a recipe for huge numbers of permanently homeless.

01/05/2025

If you double capital gains tax and stop landlords deducting their expenses from income, then renters will eventually pay the tax. Economics 101.

25/04/2025

There is no end of bad, but superficially attractive policy being promoted in this election. One of the worst is from the Greens. A ban on negative gearing, doubling capital gains tax, and capping rent increases to 2% per annum. This is meant to get Australians into housing, in fact it will push up capital city rents by an additional $83 a week, on top of rent increases that would occur anyway. This is the result of modelling that we commissioned. https://aip.asn.au/2025/04/greens-tax-demands-to-hike-capital-city-rents-83-a-week-modelling/

If you're a renter and vote Greens, you're making it harder to survive, have a reasonable lifestyle, or save a deposit for that house. Will Labor go along with these policies? There is already plenty of evidence that they like the sound of them with Treasury last year modelling how much the tax measures might raise.

Greens tax demands to hike capital city rents $83 a week: modelling Posted on April 22, 2025 by Graham Young in Housing, News, Publications · Tags: Capital Gains Tax, Greens, Negative gearing, rent caps The Greens balance of power demands to abolish Negative Gearing and double Capital Gains Tax on ...