Prosper’s submission to Victoria’s Local Government Act 1989 Review
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Category Commentary
AFR deafens its readers
The Australian Financial Review today 19 September has no less than four articles disputing the existence of The Great Australian Land Bubble. Your civic duty to buy, buy buy by Jennifer Hewett Page 2 RBA hoses down property bubble talk…
A Georgist explanation of ‘fiscal devaluation’
Payroll tax is a reverse tariff: an inland payroll tax feeds into prices of locally produced goods and services, including those intended for export, but exempts imported goods and services up to the point of importation. In contrast, a Value-Added…
Supply side reform concern
The following is an article published in Online Opinion today. Dymphna Boholt, the focus of this article, released an enews on the day the ABS 8 Capital Cities index was released (revealing a national 2.4% upkick in prices) entitled “Are…
20 Investor Advantages
Updated April 2016 Location, location is a crucial real estate strategy but ignored in neo-classical economics. This leads to poor economic policy that ignores the natural advantage of owning a prime location over running a business. Investors hover around 50+%…
Bid me up, Buttercup
The property price argument goes on and on. The already-invested need the next wave of ‘greater fools’ to blimp prices higher. They do not care whether this comes about through productivity gains, inflation or a greater appetite for risk and…
Property bubble? That’s the theory, anyway
By Philip Soos Reprinted from The Conversation As Australian housing prices have boomed over the last decade and a half, there has been much discussion over whether a bubble exists in the residential property market. More recently, the concern is…
Without revenue reform this is a pointless election
By Bryan Kavanagh, Director Land Values Research Group Reposted from On Line Opinion So September 14 has become September 7? Would it be too churlish to think that’s about the biggest political change we can expect “going forward” as they…
Rentals Brittle, Under Pressure
Last week the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) held a seminar in Melbourne on the serious stresses on renter households that have emerged over the last twenty years. Dr Wendy Stone from Swinburne found: • A decline in…
Saul Eslake @ 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner
Link to presentation Saul Eslake is one of Australia’s most highly respected economists and a renowned critic of Negative Gearing: “In my view it is impossible to conclude that negative gearing serves any purpose than to allow wealthily affluent tax…