Category Commentary
Curb Sprawl
photo credit: Dean Terry Letter to the Age DAVID BARKLEY 19 July, 2009 Dear Editor, Graham Wines (Letters, 18/7) refers to the cost of urban sprawl. Some people hold land unused and grow rich while they sleep, as the land…
Palatial Profits
photo credit: eb0la An interesting read in today’s Age: Palatial Spreads Kept Empty? That’s Rich Ghost mansions and land banks are sometimes held by those planning a tennis court or swimming pool. Other people are waiting for their children to…
Hudson on Debt Peonage
This is part 2 – check the others via Keiser’s youtube
Anatomy of the GFC
photo credit: alles-schlumpf Date: Thursday July 23rd Time: 6.30pm Venue: Frank Halkyard Library, 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Speaker: Bryan Kavanagh, Research Associate, LVRG Greenshoots? How bad WILL the Global Financial Crisis be? Why did our economists fail us? What’s the…
Scottish look to LVC to assist post GFC re-birthing
photo credit: julkastro Britain looks westward for tips on tarting up its towns As published in The Economist ACRES of flourishing weeds adorn derelict docks and warehouses on Edinburgh’s northern shoreline by the river Forth. Two years ago city planners…
Taxing Compliance Tales
photo credit: er1danus Julian Lewis writes in the Age’s The Inescapable Crunch of Taxing Times From prostitution to Pringles, tax officials want their bite. GERMAN tax officials recently proved nothing is sacred when it comes to taxation, laying claim to…
Gittens: Speculative Behaviour Trumps Social Contract
photo credit: jimjarmo Ross Gittens displays a neo-classical economist’s spectacular lack of understanding in today’s article Land Tax reform rehouses a flawed focus on rational. As every politician understands, people’s “revealed preference” is to have tax extracted from them in…
Land Tax defence
photo credit: arvindgrover Letter to the Age 29/06/09 The ups and downs Bryan Kavanagh Glen Waverly Re your page 1 headline about State land tax (Age 27/6). Our forecast in THE AGE Opinion Section on 11 March didn’t take long…
Madden’s Economic Snubbery
Planning Minister Justin Madden today writes about critics exhibiting cultural snobbery towards sprawling suburbs. He goes on to discuss the rationality behind last week’s expansion: Releasing land for homes in Melbourne’s west and north will allow for development where there…