Waleed Aly Wins E.J. Craigie Writing Award for best article reflecting the ideas of Henry George as a social and economic reformer.
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The 2022 EJ Craigie Award Winner
Prosper’s outgoing Director of Advocacy, Karl Fitzgerald, picked up the EJ Craigie Award for best Georgist writing at the 2022 Henry George Dinner and Address. His opinion piece “Forget red or green tape, developers squeeze housing supply with gold tape” appeared in...
131st Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner and Address
On September 14, 2022 we descended on the Kelvin Club (and online) to listen to Economist Brendan Coates delivering a sobering, hopeful evidenced based address. The 131st Henry George Commemorative Address Dinner and Address attracted a diverse crowd from across...
Transcript: Overcoming reform theatre: on ‘planning red tape’, policy performance, and the politics of housing
Our first Annual Henry George Commemorative Address via zoom saw Professor Nicole Gurran usher the audience through the fallacious arguments that high Australian home prices are due to planning regulations choking the supply of new dwellings. A vibrant Q & A...
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 payers to defer...
Total Resource Rents of Australia
Report Release Tuesday November 20th, 6:30pm Presenter: Karl Fitzgerald Venue: 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne This report will demonstrate the economic power of monopoly is capable of financing all tiers of government. Economics once recognised that those who owned...
The Barometer of the Economy
Tues Oct 30th, 6.30pm 1/27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne Presenter: Dr Gavin Putland RSVP to this free event Dr Gavin Putland discusses the role of Australia's largest market - the land market - in influencing economic activity. In 2001, Bryan Kavanagh found that a high...
Written Off: Negative Gearing
Tuesday Oct 2nd, 6.30pm 1/27 Hardware La, Melbourne Presenter: Philip Soos RSVP $5 entry Does Negative Gearing increase rental supply? Is it a path to wealth or a black hole? Download the full report (PDF) Philip Soos has assembled an extensive array of data to...
Leith van Onselen on Australia’s Macro Housing conditions
Last week's 121st Annual Henry George Commemorative dinner was a success with 70 in attendance. The audio from Leith van Onselen's presentation was recorded and edited into his arresting powerpoint. Press play and enjoy the analysis. Macro housing conditions - the...
121st Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner
Join us for a night celebrating the work of Henry George, one of the world's truly visionary communicators. His timeless message: "The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact...