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Karl Fitzgerald

I am the webmaster. I work full time promoting the urgent need for the public to gain a share of the earth's worth. Our projects help to raise awareness of this crucial issue.

Speculative Vacancies 8 report launch

Speculative Vacancies 8 – the Empty Properties Ignored by Statistics Wednesday Dec 9th, 6.30pm Presenter: Catherine Cashmore Venue: Our new premises – Level One, 64 Harcourt St, North Melbourne RSVP – limited seats Read the report Report author Catherine Cashmore has…

Congratulate Your MP!

Join our Evolving Economics Enews list to keep in touch with the growing tax reform movement. Sign Up now. Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia December 2015 Speculative Vacancies 8 – The Empty Properties…

Land Tax Benefits Build

The chorus continues to grow for the inclusion of Land Taxes in the national tax debate. Economics editor for The Age Ross Gittins advocates his support for Land Tax in How to fix everything: Why? Partly because GST is a…

Reform Agenda Machinations

Published as The Planned Obsolescence of the Public Interest in Online Opinion A fascinating power play continues in the debate over vertical fiscal imbalance. The strategic intent is prevalent from federal to local politics, where the health of the public…

Value Capture Variants

Last Thursday Catherine Cashmore and I addressed the Select Committee into the Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures. Read the Hansard transcription. We felt it important to put on the public record the various value capture mechanisms with commentary on their…

Monopoly rents on notice

The last few weeks have seen more good news in support of our objectives for economic justice. Monopoly rents have been called into question in a variety of different guises. Yesterday Peter Orszag (Obama’s budget czar) was in Australia for…

Putting Right Price on Infrastructure

The editorial for the Australian Financial Review summed up Malcolm Turnbull’s push for value capture so well we had to share it with you: Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t just ride on trains, he understands that they are the arteries of a…