Delighted. And red-faced with anger

by | Feb 17, 2011 | Articles

photo credit: CarSpotter Australia is delighted to hear our two world-leading miners, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, announce record profits and giant capital investment programs. Our pleasure ends right there. Both these titans are majority owned by foreign interests...

A Grounded Tax System for Australia

by | Feb 15, 2011 | Commentary, Past Events

photo credit: Timmy Toucan You are cordially invited to an interactive seminar: A Grounded Tax System for Australia Thursday 24 February 2011, 7.00 pm Presenter David Collyer Why work for wages when tax takes the cream? Why risk a business when government sucks your...

Property: Bigger Boom Coming

by | Feb 7, 2011 | Past Events

Thurs March 3rd 6.30 – 8.30pm Presenter: Phil Anderson 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melb Phil’s last talk before heading to the northern hemisphere. The biggest boom is still ahead of us. Phil Anderson will outline the history of the American 18-year real estate...

Acres of Wealth

by | Feb 2, 2011 | Letters to the Editor

photo credit: HikingArtist.com Letter to the Editor Gavin Putland, LVRG, Melbourne 02/02/2011 THE value of land embraced by the latest extension of the urban growth boundary has jumped from $25,000 to $375,000 a hectare, raising the land tax bill for the average...

Liberate labor and enterprise

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Commentary

photo credit: mtsofan Panics do not destroy capital – they merely reveal the extent to which it has previously been destroyed by its betrayal in hopelessly unproductive works.” – John Mills* “Credit Cycles and the Origins of Commercial Panics”, 1867. Around the...