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Do we at last have an Infrastructure Prime Minister?
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delighting Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk by announcing a federal contribution of $95 million for the Gold Coast light rail project. Journalists have leapt on this new policy stance, different from the...
The good ol’ boys clean up
Fairfax’s Michael Pascoe writes today about Murray & Frijters’ study Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland which found politically connected developers gained $410 million through favourable rezoning decisions in Brisbane...
Freebairn & Stewart: Let’s talk tax.
Professors John Freebairn and Miranda Stewart have penned an opinion piece today in The Age with a welcome call for state tax reform that could save taxpayers tens of billions every year. Most taxes carry deadweight losses - value destroyed as behaviour is distorted...
Land rents with Thai rice
by Phillip Anderson, Editor of Cycles, Trends and Forecasts Events around the world don’t happen in a vacuum. They have causes. They’re usually linked back to rent and the corruption and self serving nature of government. Indeed, the biggest problem around the world...
Dan Tehan wants to end Stamp Duty – for a big new GST???
MHR Dan Tehan (Liberal, Wannon) had an op-ed in today's Australian Financial Review, States dragging their heels on tax reform, criticising them for clinging to very bad taxes, notably Stamp Duty on property conveyancing. “Home buyers across the country are still...
Victoria to cap the single best tax base available
The Andrews government is capping local governments rate rises to CPI after fifteen years of six per cent rises in a low inflation environment. Minister for Local Government Natalie Hutchins’ Fair Go Rates System, administered by the Essential Services Commission,...
Best Georgist Writer 2015
The 124th Annual Henry George Commemorative dinner saw the EJ Craigie award for best Georgist writing given to Matt Ellis for his arresting piece on The housing crash we had to have: A Gen Y perspective on the bubble. Matt Ellis has been an outstanding writer over the...
Abolish All Taxes
Letter to the Editor Australian Financial Review Sept 1, 2015 Proponents of increasing either payroll tax or the GST are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, dancing around and seeming to argue, yet holding hands ("Payroll tax surfaces as the next GST", AFR August 28). If...
Intergenerational fairness
by Jesse Hermans Recently La Trobe’s Philosophy Politics and Economics Society and Ideas Society joint hosted an event on Intergenerational Fairness with some good insights into what future generations face - including my own. I was sorely disappointed by John Daley,...
Enews: China, Housing Inquiry, CGO Conference and more
Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia AUGUST 2015 What makes a successful tax state? Wednesday September 2nd Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe St, Melbourne From 6pm $30 (includes dinner...
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