SOCii Research — Resource tax
The Right 25%: A Public-Interest Model for Pricing Australia's Gas
A simple, hard-to-game formula for charging properly for finite public resources.
Australia gives away finite public resources for too little. This report sets out a deliberately simple instrument — volume × benchmark × 25% — that the public can audit, the parliament can legislate, and producers can plan around without the loopholes that have defined the last two decades of resource taxation.
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The Public Benefit Private Company
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Reforming PRRT: Ending the Industry Gaming of Australia's Petroleum Resource Rent Tax
A policy brief showing why the 2023–24 PRRT reforms cannot deliver the 40% Parliament legislated. The distortion is in the profit calculus, not the rate — and a common-sense repair measures the resource honestly through an independent valuation body without tearing up a single contract.
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AUKUS at Scale: An Independent Ledger of Australia's Largest Defence Commitment
A standing, independent ledger of AUKUS commitments, milestones and disclosures — built so journalists, researchers and citizens can follow the program without losing context across multiple parliaments.
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