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Launch: Staged Releases Report

Launch: Staged Releases Report

Date: Tuesday July 26th, 6pm Where: Zoom or Level 1, 64 Harcourt St, North Melbourne How do developers feed supply to the market and under what conditions? Karl Fitzgerald will present the findings of a landmark new report - Staged Releases: Peering Behind the Land...

Public Education Key to NSW SD-Land Tax reform

Public Education Key to NSW SD-Land Tax reform

Cross posted from Robert Harley at the AFR Karl Fitzgerald, the advocacy director at Prosper Australia, is a strong believer in the benefits of replacing property stamp duty with a broad-based land tax. But he has a warning for first-home buyers attracted to the...

Transformative housing policy

Transformative housing policy

A version of this article was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald If you believe that our growing rate of homelessness is a national shame, or you're worried that your kids will never become homeowners (or worse, never move out), then we are sorry to tell...

Prosper’s 2022 Federal Election scorecard

Prosper’s 2022 Federal Election scorecard

The 2022 Federal Election: as underwhelming as a stale slice of Wonder WhiteTM encasing a slippery, budget snag. We at Prosper could never walk past a democracy sausage. No matter how greasy and cold.  With the Lib/Lab reducing their respective policy platforms to...

Progress Magazine #1132 – On a Win

Progress Magazine #1132 – On a Win

The latest edition of Progress Magazine is available now. Peruse past editions here. We start this edition with key speeches from Hansard at the passage of Victoria’s landmark Windfall Gains Tax legislation. You can discern the distinctly Georgist principles invoked...

Friendly Jordies on Housing Woes

Friendly Jordies on Housing Woes

Cross-posted from Friendly Jordies The Facts blog, which provides the policy speak alternative to his cunning video take on Australia's affordability woes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPpAjQzWsM As reported by Greg Jericho for The Guardian, Australian property...

Property Market Imperfections

Property Market Imperfections

Our submission to the Minister for Consumer Affair's Property Market Review. Property Market Review Prosper Australia has concerns surrounding both the privatisation of real estate data, the inaccuracy of statistics and the practice of staging lot releases in large,...

Submission to the 2022 Victorian Budget

Submission to the 2022 Victorian Budget

Download our 2022 Vic budget submission (submitted March 2022) Executive Summary Prosper welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the 2022-23 Victorian Budget. We are an independent, Melbourne-based research institute with a focus on the management of exclusive and...

Why Land Taxes Can’t be Passed On

Why Land Taxes Can’t be Passed On

'Taxes' on Land are Rents: Therefore they Can't be Passed On Rates and land ‘tax’ are notionally already in the gross rent paid by a tenant, and cannot be ‘passed on’. If, as claimed by vested interests, the land value tax can be passed on, why do not these...