The I Want to Live Here film comp is on next Wed Dec 3rd at The Order of Melbourne, Level 2, 401 Swanston St (opp RMIT) Comedian Rod Quantock will help get us in the mood as we settle in to digest some of the zany films entered. The content will be good motivation for...
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The Recession We Could Have Avoided part 18
Thurs Nov 6th, 6.45 pm featuring Dr Gavin Putland Download flyer Which politician will use the 'recession we could have avoided' line? Rest assured Paul Keating will be invited. Dr Putland will discuss why asset price bubbles always end in tears. What trends have made...
Equal & Inalienable Rights to the Earth
photo credit: therapycatguardian Dr Terry Dwyer HENRY GEORGE COMMEMORATION ADDRESS Tuesday 2 September 2008 Sixty people gathered last night on Henry George's birthday to hear the Commemorative Address. The venue was the Conservatory, just across the road from...
117th Annual Henry George Dinner
Download Flyer Equal and inalienable rights to the Earth - ground, water and air: when and how should one allow enclosing the commons? Tues Sept 2nd This year we are fortunate to have Dr Terry Dwyer deliver the Commemorative Address. As a highly respected Resource...
Devouring the Planet – True Cost of Food
Time: 7pm, Friday August 1 A kilogram of beef contains between 15,000 and 100,000 litres of embodied water. For every kilogram of wheat grown in Australia, seven kilograms of topsoil are lost. We give lip service to concerns about peak oil and greenhouse gases, yet...
Film Night – Global Haywire
Tuesday July 22nd at 6.45pm for 7pm, Level 1/ 27 Hardware Lane, Melb Join us for a warm night of films! See the Earthsharing Challenge film Who Owns Anglesea? This 10 minute short film shines a spotlight on housing affordability and how this effects the seaside town...
Economics for Activists
Short Course: Tues Oct 14th - Nov 11th, 6.15 - 8pm Following last years highly successful economics for activists series of workshops, Karl Fitzgerald is set to help join the dots between the myriad of issues facing solid citizens in this day and age. Designed for...
Affordable Housing & Community Land Trusts
Monday April 21st, 7pm, Prosper Australia rooms, free Inspired by the gammut of short sighted housing policies dominating the press, Prosper Australia has invited our resident expert Leo Foley to discuss the role of Community Land Trusts in assisting housing...
Deeper in Debt
Thursday March 13th, 7.00pm, Frank Halkyard Library, Prosper Australia rooms in conversation with Bryan Kavanagh Join leading economics commentator Steve Keen as he discusses his new report Deeper in Debt. (PDF, 1.5MB) Assoc Professor Keen, author of Debunking...
The Comics of Economics
7pm, January 10th, Horses Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street Be part of a world first as international comedian Ross Ashcroft (London) delivers his first geonomics based comedy routine! Yes its time we took the mickey out of our two dimensional economic system and...