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Treasury to Gillard: “Fix Housing.”
photo credit: itmpa Last week Treasury made public its Red Book – the economic advice it gives to the incoming government. In it, Treasury lays out a big, bold reform agenda. On housing, the Red Book is scathing: “Access to adequate housing affects all Australians...
Guardian, Labor on UK LVT Push
photo credit: Apogee Photography In today's Guardian via Mark Braund, author of The Possibilities of Progress (available in our bookshop), summarises the rising impetus of LVT in UK politics. As a long-time supporter of land value taxation (LVT), it's encouraging...
Global Recession Not Caused by Sub Prime loans
photo credit: EssG So said David Giesen on Radio National's Saturday Extra. Listen to David Giesen of the Henry George Historical Society of San Francisco . He recently appeared on the Renegade Economists radio show Earthlings for All (28/07/2010). Subscribe here to...
Australia’s AAA credit rating affirmed. How’s yours?
i photo credit: Susanica The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's overnight reaffirmed Australia's AAA rating. Donald Horne’s 1964 label ‘The Lucky Country’ was ironic, yet fits our unique position as the western world endures its worst financial crisis since...
Ending the Fire Services Levy – almost excellent
At the moment, Victoria’s Metropolitan Fire Brigade and Country Fire Authority are funded by the Fire Services Levy, a charge added to fire insurance. But the FSL gives a free ride to uninsured property owners – they don’t pay for the level of fire cover provided....
Cut Concessions
photo credit: Sushanta Meh Letter to the Editor – AFR 31/08/2010 Gavin R. Putland, Melbourne Instead of prosecuting small businesses for making mistakes with capital gains tax concessions ("Tax Office hits small business", AFR, August 30), why not abolish the...
High Court Clears Henry Rent Tax
photo credit: Catherinette Rings Steampunk Letter to the Editor - AFR 26/08/2010 Gavin R. Putland, Melbourne The High Court of Australia's decision to strike down the Cadia copper royalties -- on the ground that the NSW Government didn't own the copper -- is a...
Rents after the bubble burst
photo credit: malweth We all need somewhere to live, a place of privacy and rest. For the last sixty years, it made economic sense to buy and own a home – generally, prices went only one way, UP! Australia now has a fully inflated housing bubble awaiting a pinprick....
The Old, the New and the Ugly
Causes Behind the Global Financial Crisis and 70's Stagflation Presenter: Steven Spadijer (ANU) 119th Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner Thursday Sept 2nd, 6pm onwards RSVP by Friday 27th August. Steven Spadijer is an honours student in Arts/Law at the...
Did you remember to sell the house today?
Prof. Ross Garnaut gave the Hamer Oration at Melbourne University on Thursday. He pointed out that Australia has not experienced a recession for 17 years, a record for The Lucky Country. Such a period of unbroken growth is not just an Australian record, it is a world...
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