photo credit: therapycatguardian Dr Terry Dwyer HENRY GEORGE COMMEMORATION ADDRESS Tuesday 2 September 2008 Sixty people gathered last night on Henry George’s birthday to hear the Commemorative Address. The venue was the Conservatory, just across the road from where…
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…
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…
photo credit: Svadilfari by 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 here…
“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…
Fred has gone digital! He also has a new website, and a new blog with the title cheekily borrowed off our own Renegade Economists radio show. Interest in his work is really taking off, such that a regretful property developer…
photo credit: Paul Keleher Gavin R. Putland In light of the recent Tax and Transfer Review by the Federal Government, lobbying interests are moving to reduce capital gains taxes. The term “capital gain” contains a deliberate contradiction: real capital doesn’t…
photo credit: x_jamesmorris Wednesday’s release of the Architecture of Australia’s Tax and Transfer System review paper saw commentary by lobby groups attacking capital gains taxes. PETER ANDERSON, CEO ACCI: Our capital gains tax has not been looked at in an…
photo credit: Torley David Smiley All countries save about 25 percent of what they produce, their Gross Domestic Product or GDP, for investment as capital in future production. In national accounts these “savings” include environmental damage and natural resource depletion…
Download Flyer Equal and inalienable rights to the Earth – ground, water and air: when and how should one allow enclosing the commons? Tues Sept 2nd This year we are fortunate to have Dr Terry Dwyer deliver the Commemorative Address.…