What We Want – Buyers Strike

by | Mar 31, 2011 | Commentary

The Home Buyers Strike was launched to warn prospective home owners that now is not the time to enter the market. Sign our Total Abstainers Pledge so we can demonstrate that this is a genuine movement for people who expect that housing is a human right, not a...

Trolls swarm ‘Buyers Strike’

by | Mar 31, 2011 | Press Releases

The internet-based Buyers Strike led by Prosper Australia has become a magnet for anonymous trolls trying to deflect the debate from the key issue of housing affordability with abuse and vilification. “Their message to first home buyers is simplistic and insulting:...

Home Buyers Strike on Red Symons ABC

by | Mar 30, 2011 | Commentary

photo credit: patries71 Our campaign made ABC prime time radio at 7.22am this morning. In good humour Red Symons begins the interview with “I’m completely and utterly against whatever you are standing for!”. Listen to our campaigner David Collyer...

Buyers Strike finds heavyweight backing

by | Mar 27, 2011 | Press Releases

The first home Buyers Strike announced by tax reform group Prosper Australia last week is being supported by debt-skeptic Steve Keen. “This is an excellent idea which I endorse,” Keen said on his website (1) yesterday. “It would be a foolish personal decision to take...

Buyers Strike “Irresponsible”

by | Mar 24, 2011 | Press Releases

Some commentators have described Prosper Australia’s Buyers Strike as “irresponsible” because it threatens to disrupt the orderly market in real estate. “These opinions should be greeted with howls of derisive laughter,” Buyers Strike campaigner David Collyer said...