Land rezoning open to routine corruption

As published in The Age and online, highlighting today’s seminar.  by Clay Lucas The rezoning of land by state governments across Australia is so open to routine corruption and manipulation by a “mates network” among both major political parties that...

The freeway to full employment

LC_24 via Compfight Letter to the Editor Australian Financial Review June 18, 2015 ACCESS TO LAND FOR EVERYONE The member for Eden-Monaro, Dr Hendy, suggests it is “crazy” to change negative gearing or capital gains tax arrangements and  instead we should...

Speculative Demand from Real Estate family

The Treasurer who told us to simply change jobs to afford skyrocketing Sydney has revealed his real motivations for ignoring the land bubble. He dropped the bombshell on 3AW with Neil Mitchell: “Yeah, well I come from a family of real estate agents…”  The locked out...

Re-zoning insider windfalls

Read about this landmark methodology by Cameron Murray and Paul Fritjers, modelling game theory from thousands of cosy relationships to determine the likelihood of beneficial re-zoning outcomes. Cameron was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week. Stay tuned...