Latest News & Commentary
GFC – nothing learnt
By Catherine Cashmore Cross posted from all over the web, including Naked Capitalism. Yves here. This post looks at how little has been done in the wake of the global financial crisis is instructive because it takes an international view. The Australian writer,...
The Sovereign State of Pigovia
Libertarians and conservatives denounce Pigovian taxation because it would serious decrease profits for those doing the cost externalisation e.g. the wealthy and big business. Because uncorrected external effects are so rampant and thus a sign of the grave inefficiencies of capitalism, they have to be denied to even exist.
Clyde Cameron advocates for Land Tax in Federal Parliament: 1968
Mr. Clyde Cameron AO was the member for Hindmarsh in South Australia. These speech extracts were published in Progress Magazine, December 1968. One of the biggest difficulties for people wanting to build a house today is to find a suitable block of land at a decent...
Anthony’s Story
Sorry Australia. We won’t be turned into slaves to keep your worthless property bubble afloat.
Land: A Key Natural Advantage
If the RBA and our economic mandarins observe a national strategic advantage they have an obligation to foster it and deploy it to the advantage of all. One of ours is space. We have chosen to welcome migration, dig up minerals, grow crops and animals – but also to strictly ration by price the access to land for young adults.
The Natural Source of Public Revenue
By Clare Tindall. This is an excerpt of a piece that was originally presented almost 50 years ago, at a Georgist Youth Night in 1967. It was published in the October 1967 edition of Progress Magazine. It is at such a time as this, when we are filling out our taxation...
A Speech For Land Tax – 1988 Victorian Parliament
This speech is taken from Progress Magazine Issue No. 936, February 1988. It’s by Morris Williams, member for Doncaster and a past president of Prosper Australia (then known as Tax Reform Australia). SPEECH FOR LAND TAX IN THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT Mr. WILLIAMS...
No Land for You, Melbourne
The Napthine government is determined to limit land supply and thereby further increase the cost of land for all in Melbourne.
The price of freshly subdivided land on the outskirts of cities reverberates and amplifies all the way to their centre. Constricting supply has profound implications.
China Watch – Land turnover ‘plunge’ a predictor of recessionary forces
Concerns continue to grow in China where the value of land sales are down 38% y.o.y and VOLUME down 45% according to Market Watch: Total land sales fell to 1,767 transactions in May in 300 Chinese cities, down 45% from a year ago and 19% lower than in the previous...
Risk Taking or Rent Seeking?
Our third Evolving Economics Enews. Share it with your friends, join the enews list, sent bi-weekly. Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia June 11, 2014 Photo - Kicki Holmen Three, no make that...
Subscribe to our newsletter
Be the first to hear about our latest research, campaigns and upcoming events.
Support our work to shift tax away from the productive parts of our economy and towards unearned streams of income.
The power of revenue policy to create a fairer and more sustainable economy is significantly underestimated, and this is what we seek to change.