By Bryan Kavanagh Treasury’s mission is “to improve the wellbeing of the Australian people by providing sound and timely advice to the Government, based on objective and thorough analysis of options, and by assisting Treasury Ministers in the administration of their...
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Submission To The Budget For The Knox City Council
by Anne Schmid JUNE 2006 This submission is made with particular reference to the proposed introduction of the waste collection charge. I ask the question – Are user charges better than rates? What is the next charge going to be? Traditionally councils have relied on...
Three Dimensional Economics
by Karl Fitzgerald as published in Arena Magazine, Feb-March, 2008, Edition 93 In a period where the twin crises of global warming and the wealth gap are attacking society from both sides, policy makers are continually limited in their effectiveness by a two...
Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism
by Dr Gavin Putland Given that the economy is managed so that a certain percentage of people must be losers, the majority stands to gain by ensuring that the losers are selected not from its own ranks, but from the ranks of some already disadvantaged minority. That's...
Property Bubble leads to crash landing
by Bryan Kavanagh As featured in today's Business Age, 28/03/08 WHEN it mattered, the US Federal Reserve, US banks and rating agencies failed the risk-management test — in much the same way that Australia is now failing it. This is because none of these bodies...
Clyde Cameron on the Wakefield Plan & wage slavery
With the recent passing of the highly respected Georgist Clyde Cameron, we feel it is timely to look at the wisdom of his core beliefs: EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY THE HON.CLYDE R. CAMERON A.O. But now it is an oversimplification to say that the lessons of the Maritime...
True History of Monopoly the Boardgame
Read this PBS transcript on Monopoly's original intention to teach about the dangers of land monopoly. Understand how the world's most popular boardgame was subverted to teach young people the opposite to the games original intent. It is interesting that not more...
Canberra’s Leasehold Land System
by Leo Foley The primary source for this paper is “Canberra in Crisis” by Frank Brennan, 1971 The Road to Leasehold - the origins of the Canberra leasehold system.. Canberra is the offspring of politics and a social ideal. The politics were those of Federation and...
How to Pay for Public Transport
By Dr. Gavin R. Putland (revised June 12, 2003) In response to A Vision of Sustainable Transport in Queensland (Queensland Greens, February 2003) Summary Any new public transport service increases property values (or, more precisely, land values) along the route. The...
Slavery
It is suspected that the author is Mark Twain Suppose I am the owner of an estate and 100 slaves, all the land about being held in the same way by people of the same class as myself. It is a profitable business, but there are many expenses and annoyances attached to...