Prosper Australia recently submitted to the 2021 Federal Inquiry into housing affordability and supply.
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A petro state without the petro dollars
On Friday 20 August, Jesse Hermans & I appeared at Senator Patrick’s Oil & Gas Inquiry. The focus of the inquiry was to evaluate what Australia could do to maximise returns from publicly owned oil and gas resources and examine how other nations have designed their tax systems. Particularly in light of climate change and the potential for stranded assets.
Submission to Victoria’s Ten Year Affordable Housing Strategy 2021
Prosper’s submission focuses on the scope of the strategy. We do not believe that a long term strategy for affordable housing can ignore the political economy of private freehold land ownership. Understanding the distinction between owning a home and owning a...
National Water Reform Submission 2021
Download our 2020-21 National Water Reform Inquiry 2020-21 submission (submitted March 2021) Prosper Australia thanks Productivity Commission for accepting feedback on its draft National Water Reform Report. As a non-government organisation with a focus on economic...
Submission to the 2021 Victorian Budget
Download our 2021 Vic budget submission (submitted February 2021) Executive Summary Prosper welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the 2021-22 Victorian Budget. We are an independent, Melbourne-based research institute with a focus on the management of exclusive...
Submission to the 2020 Victorian Budget
Download our 2020 Vic budget submission (submitted January 2020) Prosper welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the 2020 Victorian Budget. It is our position that unearned and unproductive streams of private income which derive from these elements of our...
States have the best taxes
An excerpt to Prosper's submission to the NSW government's Federal Financial Relations Review: Prosper Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the NSW Federal Financial Relations Review (the Review). Prosper is an independent, not-for-profit...
Submission on Offshore Petroleum & Greenhouse Gas Storage
That Australian liquified natural gas (LNG) is being sold on international markets for prices less than the domestic price is symptomatic of national policy failure.
Submission – Australia’s Oil and Gas Reserves Inquiry
Prosper recently submitted to the Standing Committee on Economics' Australia's Oil and Gas Inquiry. The Reform Agenda An effective resource rent mechanism is paramount to guaranteeing the economic rights of all citizens. This ensures the public receives a fair share...
Submission on the Privatisation of Land Use Victoria
Submission to the Standing Committee on the Environment and Planning Inquiry into the proposed long-term lease of land titles and registry functions of Land Use Victoria June 22, 2018 To Mr. David Davis (Chair): Prosper Australia is Melbourne-based not-for-profit...