A grounded tax system for australia

by | Jan 18, 2011 | Past Events, Speeches

You are cordially invited to an interactive seminar: A Grounded Tax System for Australia by David Collyer photo credit: Nuytsia@Tas Why work for wages when tax takes the cream? Why risk a business when government sucks your blood? And why landowners make our lives...

The pain in falling land prices

by | Jan 11, 2011 | Commentary

photo credit: Travis S. The US housing market is a living hell.  Homeowners are being boiled alive. The price of land was bid up to staggering multiples of incomes, until it no longer made sense to buy a house. And then the trend turned, hard and fast. One in five US...

Thank you, Dr Henry

by | Dec 21, 2010 | Commentary

Dr Ken Henry has resigned after ten tumultuous, torturous years as Australia’s Secretary of the Treasury, effective March. Treasury Secretaries are notorious for being conservative prickly characters – the role demands they destroy the half-baked enthusiasms of...

Grand Sale! Grand Sale! Grand Sale!

by | Dec 16, 2010 | Articles, Commentary

The Australian Government is about to sell real estate worth billions.  It is a matter of critical economic importance that they get it right. Up for sale is radio spectrum for mobile phones and data signals for the next fifteen years. This is real estate as rare and...

Port of Portland: sunk

by | Dec 9, 2010 | Commentary

Portland in South West Victoria is a beautiful city.  It was first illegally settled by the Henty brothers in 1834.  It became a home to whalers and sealers and the city boasts many fine stone buildings from that era. After all the whales were killed, Portland went to...