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Report Presentation: Speculative Vacancies 10 – A Persistent Puzzle
Tuesday, 8 Dec 4pmFree Zoom webinar Toilet paper & hand sanitizer. It's troubling when essentials are hoarded. In a year in which we've rationed tinned tomatoes and put the homeless in hotels, can we still accept hoarded land & housing? Join us as we launch...
Vic Budget: Stamp Duty Exemptions Irresponsible
The Andrews’ government has heeded calls to ensure all Victorians have access to housing with today's Victorian budget. Expanding public sector housing on public land is the right move. Exempting new buyers from stamp duty is the wrong move. “The Pallas budget could...
Big Pharma’s Covid Exposure
Renegade Economists Show 589 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 6 - 6.30pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Subscribe to the monthly podcast. Show Notes Has Big Pharma exposed society to undue risk in the covid era? In our 2nd episode on this issue, Tahir Amin...
Webinar – A capital effort! What the ACT can teach us about land tax reform
After eight years, the ACT’s bold experiment in tax reform is paying dividends. Can other states emulate the ACT's success? What: Zoom panel discussion with Q&AWhen: 12:30—1:30PM Tuesday Nov 10th Join our expert panel of tax boffins as we explore the options and...
The Second Interval – The Evaluation in Brief
Evaluating the ACT’s 20 Year Land Value Taxation transition after 8 years The ACT’s 20 year transition is paying dividends, but not necessarily of the sort we expected. The motivation for this tax transition was to improve the predictability, efficiency and equity of...
8 Years on, Homebuyers Winning from ACT’s Pioneering Tax Reforms
A new report for Prosper Australia finds the ACT government’s twenty-year tax reform program is achieving more than its three key aims of predictability, efficiency and equity. Read the report The Second Interval: Evaluating the ACT's 20 Year Land Value Taxation...
What augurs, Frydenberg?
Photo by Justin Clark on Unsplash The Federal budget is set to be handed down next week and, as usual, we are concerned about the Treasurer pump-priming land markets. As Prosper President, Catherine Cashmore, described in a recent interview with Martin North, the...
Investment in affordable housing won’t cause a drop in private market house prices
Politicians must put aside ineffective market boosting policies if they wish to achieve housing affordability and improve social housing infrastructure in Australia. Australia has become dependent on high house prices to sustain new housing construction, which is why...
Transcript: Overcoming reform theatre: on ‘planning red tape’, policy performance, and the politics of housing
Our first Annual Henry George Commemorative Address via zoom saw Professor Nicole Gurran usher the audience through the fallacious arguments that high Australian home prices are due to planning regulations choking the supply of new dwellings. A vibrant Q & A...
The Miracle of the Rentenmark
Renegade Economists Show 587 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 6 - 6.30pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Subscribe to the monthly podcast. Show Notes With the corona crash only just beginning economically speaking, we need the best tools available. So we delve...