Events
Transcript: Value Capture and Affordable Housing: Insights from Singapore
133rd Henry George Commemorative Dinner Address by Professor Sock-Yong Phang, Singapore Management University, Kelvin Club, Melbourne, 15 August 2024 Value capture and affordable housing: insights from Singapore Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Dr Tim Helm...
Brisbane: Value capture and affordable housing: economic lessons from Singapore
Join us for a seminar and discussion with one of Singapore’s leading urban economists, Professor Sock-Yong Phang. Prosper Australia in conjunction with the Cities Research Institute at Griffith University invites you to join us for an evening of conversation with one...
133rd Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner and Address
Join us for a night of intellectual discourse and celebration at the 133rd Annual Henry George Dinner and Address, to be held on Thursday, August 15th, 2024, at The Kelvin Club, Melbourne. Prosper Australia’s Executive Committee invites you to join us as we pay...
The Great Housing Hijack – a new book by Dr Cam Murray
The Great Housing Hijack is the latest book by Dr Cameron Murray. Here at Prosper Australia we have been following Cameron's work for quite some time. Some of our supporters will remember his entertaining Henry George Commemorative Address in 2018. The Great Housing...
Australia: Made for Free Trade and a Tax on Rent
132nd Henry George Address by Professor Ross Garnaut Australia: Made for Free Trade and a Tax on Rent (Transcript of speech recorded at the Kelvin Club, Melbourne, 7 September 2023. Lightly edited for clarity and brevity.) Thanks, Tim, and very good to be here with...
Waleed Aly wins 2023 E.J. Craigie Writing Award
Waleed Aly Wins E.J. Craigie Writing Award for best article reflecting the ideas of Henry George as a social and economic reformer.
Henry George & The Science of Political Economy
Friday May 5th, 2023 6:30pm School of Political Economy, Level 1, 49 Smith Street. Free event. All welcome. Register at Eventbrite Henry George (1839-1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late...
Pandemic rental dynamics: an (un)natural experiment in excess supply
Tuesday 21st March The Kelvin Club, 14-30 Melbourne Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000 map 5:30pm Join us in-person we present findings from our latest research note - Pandemic rental dynamics: an (un)natural experiment in excess supply by Jesse Hermans and Tim Helm. You’d...
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...