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The ABS values Australia’s assets
The latest report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the world leading System of Environmental Economic Accounting was released yesterday. The ABS have taken a lead role in developing the system at the United Nations level over the last decade. Last year the UN...
An Economic Story for Artists
by Pat Aller Arden, Delaware July, 1999 The Georgist Philosophy in Culture and History: How to Broaden Our Focus to Strengthen Our Message. We've been asking this question for over a century. The very fact that we are in Arden attests to George's influence on culture...
Why the rent is so damn high
How one person can own another by our continual ignorance of the Law of Rent. A vital 5 minutes.
People Power and Housing
By Catherine Cashmore, a market analyst, journalist, and policy thinker, with extensive industry experience in all aspects relating to property. Follow Catherine on Twitter or via her Blog. The protests that washed across major cities and towns a few days ago, covered...
Inter-Generational Tax Inequity
Written by Leith van Onselen and cross posted from Macrobusiness. Business Spectator’s Rob Burgess wrote a great article over the weekend arguing how the current structure of Australia’s Budget risks generating a generation of tax slaves, as younger generations are...
The Senate Housing Affordability Inquiry: Prosper’s submission
Australia has blown a land bubble of immense size. This troubling reality has finally come to the attention of the Senate and obliged it to examine the matter. Prosper Australia's submission to the Senate Housing Affordability inquiry examines nine key economic...
ABC Radio, Apartment Gluts and Competitive Forces
This morning I was interviewed by ABC (radio) news regarding Planning Minister Matthew Guy's 'Super Tuesday'. The questions focused on "the largest number of private residential permits made on one day by the state government". Will they make a difference? I pointed...
Property Drip Feeding Slips Under the ACCC’s Radar
"We support ACCC’s drive to contest price gouging but express concern the ACCC focus on online sales is a mere detail compared to what is happening under our feet in the land game." Prosper Australia Project Director Karl Fitzgerald said today "The global property...
AHURI is ‘Home Alone’
In an extraordinary outburst, the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has today embraced planning constraints on urban subdivision, elevating ‘developer certainty’ over the risk – heaven forbid! – of oversupply. I kid you not. “While it is almost...
FIRE sector eats into productivity
A must read for those interested in Prof Michael Hudson's commentary on the growing influence of the FIRE sector in rent seeking activities, cross posted from Macrobusiness. By Leith van Onselen Business Spectator’s Rob Burgess made the following keen observation over...
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