Victorian First Home Grants ‘A Cruel Hoax’

by | Apr 28, 2013 | Commentary

28 April 2013 MELBOURNE: – Victoria’s new Treasurer Michael O’Brien taunts first home buyers with a cruel hoax today, announcing grants for new build and targeted stamp duty concessions. He confirmed their role as a patsy for every property-based parasite in...

Bad taxes blight our land

by | Apr 24, 2013 | Commentary

  Last week I offered a solution to the blight caused by vacant or disused sites in central Melbourne. Everyone is diminished by landowners leaving valuable land unused while they agitate for rezoning profits. The Age’s Bruce Guthrie hopped into the discussion...

Should we charge Land for vagrancy?

by | Apr 17, 2013 | Commentary

  The Melbourne City Council has been urged to apply differential rates “to sites defined as vacant or derelict” by its Future of Melbourne committee. They name to shame the Savoy Tavern on Spencer Street, the Argus building on Latrobe Street and bare land at 567...

Land Bubble, Tax Bubble

by | Mar 26, 2013 | Articles

  by Bryan Kavanagh reposted from On-line Opinion I’m constantly told Australia’s land prices are astronomically high because of our high rate of immigration and the shortage of supply of residential allotments So, it seems the price of a block of...