photo credit: Svadilfari by Gavin R. Putland (Address to the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, August 17, 2008.) Thank you, Peter. And thanks to all of you for welcoming this former Trinitarian Methodist, and current Trinitarian Orthodox Christian. I’m here…
photo credit: Paul Keleher Gavin R. Putland In light of the recent Tax and Transfer Review by the Federal Government, lobbying interests are moving to reduce capital gains taxes. The term “capital gain” contains a deliberate contradiction: real capital doesn’t…
Robert J McAlpine, President Prosper Australia The time for thinkers on economic matters has come! By neglecting the field of property valuation, mainstream economists have missed some of the most important factors in market price determination There exists an almost…
This article was presented at a late 1980’s meeting prior to ACT self government and published in the Canberra Times. Terry Dwyer ACT finances will come from three sources – taxes, grants and borrowings. I do not propose to say…
With the growing pressure to find affordable accommodation and our excitement at the Canberra Land rent proposal, we thought it high time we showed you a growing trend through the northern hemisphere – Community Land Trusts by Prosper Tasmania’s Leo…
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…
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?…
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 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…
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…