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We will publish our 2023-24 Pre-budget Submission when the relevant website does so, or when the budget is released.

Pre-budget submissions are our opportunity to make a case for significant government investment where it is needed. Ours is titled Cooling the Planet and Australia's STEM future.

Download this submission to the Inquiry into the Environment and Other Legislation Amendment (Removing Nuclear Energy Prohibitions) Bill 2022 (PDF 228 KB).

Fusion's position is that the current prohibition on nuclear energy unnecessarily restricts Australia's ability to conduct research and development in this field and our nation's future energy options.

The Senate Economics References Committee has recently been investigating the power and influence of "Big Tech" over Australian democracy. Our submission was that as the Australian government fails to even try competing against such growing powers, then the Australian way of life is increasingly just the whims of what Big Tech lets us do.

The subsequent release of ChatGPT just days later has vividly shown how true our predictions are − that people live online, outside the notion of "Australia"; and that if we are to have any say in how our society operates; then our governments need to be participants in providing our online life.

UPDATE DECEMBER 2022: We did it – energy from burning native forest biomass no longer counts as "renewable"!

As this regulatory change has been made, we are publishing our submission here, even though the committee has not yet done so.

Download this submission on the Native forest biomass in the Renewable Energy Target: consultation paper (PDF 250 KB).

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water recently sought comments on whether native forest biomass should be counted as "renewable" for the purpose of the Renewable Energy Target.

It should not.

Below are some of the major points from our submission, which might one day be published on the department's website.