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Don’t Shoot the Rabbits! We’ll need to eat them!!
Robert J McAlpine, President Prosper Australia The time for thinkers on economic matters has come! By neglecting the field of property valuation, mainstream economists have missed some of the most important factors in market price determination There exists an almost...
An Independent A.C.T Taxation Policy
This article was presented at a late 1980's meeting prior to ACT self government and published in the Canberra Times. Terry Dwyer ACT finances will come from three sources - taxes, grants and borrowings. I do not propose to say much about borrowings because borrowings...
Community Land Trusts explained
With the growing pressure to find affordable accommodation and our excitement at the Canberra Land rent proposal, we thought it high time we showed you a growing trend through the northern hemisphere - Community Land Trusts by Prosper Tasmania's Leo Foley (Based on...
Podcast the Renegade Economists
Listen to the world's only geonomics radio show by subscribing to our podcast. Follow these 3 easy steps to have your computer automatically download each week's show: copy this link: http://3cr.org.au/podcast/podcast.php?cat=RenegadeEconomists go to your ITunes,...
Empty Dwellings During Housing Crisis?
Today's Sydney Morning Herald article on Empty Dwellings in a City Desperate for Places to Live has exposed the raft of vacancies prevalent when land banking trumps housing affordability. It quotes how 122,211 sites were vacant in the 2006 census, reminding us of the...
Reforming Property Taxes
Our Policy Position on the hotch potch of property taxes is now online. With affordability reaching epic proportions, it is time governments of all levels looked into the eyes of the problem - inaccurate council rates and land taxes. With council rates going out at...
Unprintable Remarks On The Budget – Gavin Putland
The day after the 2008 Federal Budget, Gavin Putland (our Research Officer) sent three letters to newspapers. This one was sent to THE AGE, which exercised its editorial discretion not to publish: Cop-out On Inflation And Rents If a Budget is to be anti-inflationary,...
Melbourne Rents deliver a smile for some
Saturday's Age article on Melbourne's rental growth outstripping all other states is reflective of current government policy at all levels - local, State and Federal. When combined with record immigration levels, property flipping will continue unabated. Prosper...
Rating Federal Treasury’s Performance
By Bryan Kavanagh Treasury’s mission is “to improve the wellbeing of the Australian people by providing sound and timely advice to the Government, based on objective and thorough analysis of options, and by assisting Treasury Ministers in the administration of their...
Budget Surpluses, Sovereign Funds and the slide of the US Dollar
Yesterday's Federal budget surplus of $21.7 billion raises the spectre of a global trend tied to the principles represented on this website. Take the foreign reserves of Singapore (US$176bn), Hong Kong (US$160bn) and Russia (US$563 bn). Singapore and Hong Kong have...
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