Predictable Council Rates Fury

by | Sep 1, 2008 | Commentary

photo credit: nicksarebi In the past year more than 81,000 Victorians have received rates default notices, which then impose a 12 per cent interest charge on the debts. Council Rates are again in the headlines, with affordability pressures crunching into a large...

Speed Renting

by | Aug 29, 2008 | Commentary

6 – 8pm Sept 16th@ Horse Bazaar In conjunction with our I Want to Live Here film competition, we are running a Speed Renting night to assist in the pursuit of the perfect living environment. Speed Renting is similar to Speed Dating, though this time home hunters...

Rising oil prices; falling property values?

by | Aug 19, 2008 | Articles

photo credit: Svadilfariby Gavin R. Putland (Address to the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, August 17, 2008.) Thank you, Peter. And thanks to all of you for welcoming this former Trinitarian Methodist, and current Trinitarian Orthodox Christian. I’m...

E.J Craigie

by | Aug 15, 2008 | Commentary, Progress Magazine

“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.”...