Prosper Australia

Download Progress Sept – Nov 2011 (PDF 4.5MB) Letter from the Editor This edition of Progress carries the theme “Framing the message of Henry George in the 21st century”. Thank you to everyone who contributed articles, I’m pleased with the quality and diversity of the work received. You will find a broad and intelligent analysis [...]

A soundly-based Land Value Tax to reduce the taxes on labor and enterprise would restore the rewards to effort and propel the economy forward like a rocket.

photo credit: Lucia. . . A secret map of Melbourne’s transport plans for the next 30 years was published in The Age yesterday. Doubts were raised about its authenticity (weakly, unconvincingly) by the Victorian government. Average householders may shrug, but this is a treasure map for property pirates speculators. “Here be Gold, mateys! Arrgh!” Knowing [...]

photo credit: Cayusa   Tax reform is hard for government: losers complain loud and long, while those who will benefit are suspicious and silent. We should be angry as hell about the tax system.  It scoops up the earnings of the poor but merely nips at what the wealthy make. That’s why the Victorian Treasury [...]

photo credit: ToOliver2 Dr Gavin Putland Taken from the Dec – Jan edition of Progress.

The new look Progress Magazine, 105 years young, is hitting mailboxes around the country. Get a trial subscription to keep abreast of the frontiers of privatisation and the blowback we are applying. The September edition includes a Hudson special, with leading intellect Dan Sullivan providing insights on the core issues re privilege on land, resources [...]

photo credit: movimente David Smiley (To palliate: to relieve a disease without curing) David Smiley analyses the debate started by Kevin Rudd’s essay entitled ‘The Global Financial Crisis’. While the world’s experts are arguing about how to relieve the pain of recession, few are diagnosing its fundamental cause and fewer still are prescribing a fundamental [...]

photo credit: zachstern Karl Williams Progress Magazine’s editorial column. Make sure you sign up to receive a hard copy of our hard hitting magazine – Trial Subscriptions are available. This time of economic crisis is when we make our run. Politicians, think-tanks, bankers and the commentariat are proving to the public that their voodoo economics [...]