E.J Craigie
Friday, August 15th, 2008
“Communally created values must be safeguarded, and it is the function of government to collect into the public treasury the value attaching to land by reason of the presence of the people, as that is the natural source from which public revenue should be drawn.”
“This small bespeckled man was always looked upon in the parliament” – so says Clyde Cameron – “as the greatest debater the Parliament of South Australia had ever seen”. Clyde (a cabinet minister in the glory days of the Whitlam government) also makes the claim “that Craigie really was a very great figure – I think really the greatest man of this [20th] century, and it is a tragedy that he was not given the opportunity to play a more important role in the politics of our country”.
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Leading Georgist author Fred Harrison was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week regarding his new book