Australian Valuation Office shut to help or hinder bubbles?
Today is a testing day for economic democracy with the announcement the Australian Valuation Office will be closed. The office has for 104 years valued our land – and was the cornerstone of the first federal tax office – the Federal Land Tax Office. We...Eslake in Senate submission on Housing Policy Failure
Saul Eslake has hit the press (p3 of the AFR – paywalled) with his submission to the Senate Committee on Housing Affordability. The submission is largely based on his 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative dinner presentation. Saul again reiterates his key...Physiocrats – The Catalysts of Economic Thought
Cross Posted from Monmouth University The Physiocrats Ordell P. Olson Assistant Professor of Economics France, at the end of the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century, was gradually going bankrupt. Wars were depleting both the natural and human resources of the...Water – Beneficiary Should Pay
Letters to the Editor Australian Financial Review LAND BENEFITS The comment by Marcus Spiller (AFR 3-5 January, Our cities should be allowed to water their own green shoots) on why per kl charging for water was better than “property” taxes nicely illustrates what is...Republish this article
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