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Melbourne and Sydney are in housing oversupply
by Lindsay David If I were an Australian central banker, politician, bank economist, or even a negatively geared property investor, I'd be telling you Australia has a chronic housing shortage, which is responsible for our sky-high housing prices. But as an independent...
Australian land prices go vertical
By Leith van Onselen Core Logic-RP Data has released its Capital Markets Report for 2015, which contains some disturbing data on Australia’s land costs, which have gone vertical despite shrinking in size: The price of vacant residential land across the capital cities...
Andrew’s Rate Capping Folly
Cr Stephen Mayne invited a Prosper presentation at the Future Melbourne meeting last night. This followed on from the February MCC meeting I presented to in reaction to the short sighted Victorian Government decision to cap local council rating. Cr Mayne had asked...
Property rentier collects its spoils
By Leith van Onselen Hot on the heels of Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s gutless announcement that he won’t reform negative gearing, prime spokesman for the property industry, the Property Council of Australia (PCA), has released the following statement: Executive...
134% cheaper!
Comedy central, this guy says it all. If only there was a transcript! The emotions this video elicit will only grow following Tony Abbott's forceful ruling out of Negative Gearing reform today. He wants 'lower, simpler, fairer taxes' and then goes on to say it was the...
Xenophon changes tune on super access
Cycling into work yesterday I bumped into the good Senator Nick Xenophon. I had to yell out "No super access for First Home Owners"! He responded so I hit the brakes and we had a short chat. In good news, Nick said that he had changed his position: 'I've been...
Swing that Cat!
New Sydney flats will have to be bigger, the NSW Land and Environment Court ruled last week, overturning long accepted common practice allowing minimum one-bedroom unit sizes at 50m2. Dual-aspect flats must be a minimum 58m2 and more common single-aspect flats 73.4m2....
COAG needs state sovereignty, not handout politics
Press Release: Debate over GST split ignores bigger issue “The States should not be threatening to re-impose regressive taxes of the past, but be working with the Federal government to overcome the mis-information prevalent in a property obsessed economy,” stated...
In favour of Land Tax
Letters to the Editor Bryan Kavanagh Glen Waverley 13.04.2015 The expected backlash to "A tax on land would be fair, efficient and unpopular" (Comment, 8/4) has arrived (Letters, 9 and 10/4). The wealthy will cry crocodile tears for asset-rich, income-poor people....
Deciphering Change
With Land Value Tax recently in the press here, here, here, here, here and here, we hope these four interviews with leading international Georgists help build the public knowledgebase. Share them as you may. Listeners from as far afield as Ecuador to Hobart are...
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