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The cloud has a land problem: Prosper Australia calls for public share of digital windfalls
Prosper Australia says the Federal Government's focus on the rapid expansion of data centres is welcome, but argues it is overlooking one of the biggest economic questions: who benefits from the enormous increases in land values created by the AI boom? As governments...
CGT debate exposes States’ $11b annual asset giveaway
By Henry Williams Originally published in Pearls and Irritations. State governments are giving away billions in development rights that create huge private land windfalls, when pricing those rights could fund housing, infrastructure and fairer state taxes. The debate...
Common Wealth film screenings
Prosper Australia is proud to sponsor the distribution of a compelling new Australian-made documentary, Common Wealth. Our team will be attending screenings across the country, participating in Q&As and other events. We would love to see you there. The following...
Submission: Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) Bill 2026 and Income Tax Rates Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) Bill 2026
SUBMISSION TO THE SENATE ECONOMICS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE Author: Cathal Leslie, Senior Economist, Prosper Australia9 June, 2026 Summary of recommendations Prosper Australia supports the Government’s stated objectives of improving housing affordability and...
$11 billion hidden housing “giveaway” to wealthy landowners each year
A new report released today by Prosper Australia has found governments across Australia are effectively giving away $11 billion a year to wealthy landowners by failing to put a fair price on development rights. The report urges state governments to price these assets...
Call for Submissions: Progress Magazine
Issue Theme: Future technology, land economics, and economic rents Progress magazine invites submissions for our upcoming issue exploring the intersection of emerging technologies, economic rent, and contemporary Georgist thought. As artificial intelligence,...
Australia at risky end of land price cycle, new paper warns
Prosper Australia has released a major new paper by Catherine Cashmore, The Land Cycle, warning that Australia is in the late stages of a historically recurring land price cycle. The paper presents a long-form, narrative-driven analysis of how land values move...
Rack off Musk: Australia’s public spectrum is not a corporate freebie
Independent economic think tank Prosper Australia has slammed threats from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to withhold satellite-based mobile services from Australia unless it is handed valuable public spectrum access for free. “Let’s be clear: Australia’s airwaves are a public...
How to get a decent public return from Australia’s gas resources — A 25% export tax? Or something else?
Cross-posted from Fresh Economic Thinking By Cameron Murray I explain how a scaled variable royalty does the job of a super-profits tax while avoiding the accounting trickery in order to share risk and get a better public return from resources. Have you heard...
Taxpayer Subsidies Won’t Fix Geelong’s CBD: End Speculation Instead
Prosper Australia has rejected calls for new tax breaks and subsidies for developers in Geelong’s CBD, warning that such measures would shift private risk onto taxpayers without addressing the root cause of stalled development. “Governments should not be in the...
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