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Renegade Economists radio show today
Tune in today to the Renegade Economists on 3CR from 5 - 6pm Wednesdays. Hosts Karl Fitzgerald & Rayna Fahey will interview David Bollier, acclaimed author and editor of www.onthecommons.org. He will discuss how the 'commons' movement is developing, where some of the...
Churches’ to share the land
Finally Victoria's Churches are opening up their massive landholdings, seeing land rightfully as a place for homes not speculation. In Churches' radical plan for cheap rental housing, we hear that Victorian Churches own 2100 properties, some that have been vacant for...
Land Tax Proposal Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Media Release 01/02 Prosper Australia is elated to hear that the Brumby government is returning to its senses by recognising Land Value Capture as the most efficient way to raise public revenue. However, the progressive tax tiers need to be rolled into a flat tax....
Duty to supply housing – Dr Gavin R. Putland
Letter to the Herald Sun Monday Jan 28th, 2008 It is appropriate that the surge in Melbourne home prices has rekindled debate on stamp duty, but not at all appropriate that the discussion has focused on the size of the duty instead of its base. Stamp duty is a...
Give the manufacturer a chance – David Barkly
submitted to the Age on January 22nd, 2008 Dear Editor, Martin Feil and Ernest Rodeck in “The debt penalty: a matter of great import to all Australians” (Opinion, 21/1) express concern at the accumulation of foreign debt, partly due to two decades of buying foreign...
Speculative land rationing our opportunity
Property lobby pushes all the usual red herrings whilst ignoring the speculative causes to affordability pressures. Demographia International’s new report on housing affordability again pushes the “unending sprawl forever” mantra. Report author Wendell Cox rolled out...
True History of Monopoly the Boardgame
Read this PBS transcript on Monopoly's original intention to teach about the dangers of land monopoly. Understand how the world's most popular boardgame was subverted to teach young people the opposite to the games original intent. It is interesting that not more...
Canberra’s Leasehold Land System
by Leo Foley The primary source for this paper is “Canberra in Crisis” by Frank Brennan, 1971 The Road to Leasehold - the origins of the Canberra leasehold system.. Canberra is the offspring of politics and a social ideal. The politics were those of Federation and...
The Comics of Economics
7pm, January 10th, Horses Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street Be part of a world first as international comedian Ross Ashcroft (London) delivers his first geonomics based comedy routine! Yes its time we took the mickey out of our two dimensional economic system and...
Freeing up Speculative Land
ALP policy will continue to subsidise developers over first home owners. The ALP’s new housing minister should look at freeing up the supply of privately held land (aka land banks) by using a Site Rental on all land. In response to the housing industry’s recent call...
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