PROSPER IN THE MEDIA
ABC
18 August 2024 How did Singapore achieve a home ownership rate of 90 per cent? Can Australia learn anything from it?
ABC News
24 March 2024 If we taxed land properly, we’d have billions of extra dollars to fund big tax cuts elsewhere. So why don’t we do it?
ABC News
5 Nov 2013 Report suggests thousands of vacant homes keeping Melbourne house prices high
Macro Business
27 July 2022 ‘Developer land banking fuels Australia’s housing crisis’
The Age
26 July 2022 ‘Forget red or green tape, developers squeeze housing supply with gold tape’. Op Ed by Karl Fitzgerald
Sydney Morning Herald
17 May 2022 ‘Developers blame planners for limited housing supply, critics say they’re banking land’
AFR
18 May 2021 Quote from Prosper’s Karl Fitzgerald
ABC News
27 Nov 2020 ‘Western United and a local council are building a $150 million football stadium essentially out of thin air, thanks to a concept called value capture’
Australian Financial Review
10 July 2024 Prosper applauds the much-needed shift by state governments away from inefficient taxes like stamp duty onto land taxes.
ABC News
12 Feb 2024 ‘It’s not just unfair but immoral’: Why experts say Australia’s tax system is broken and what can be done to fix it
ABC Radio Melbourne
4 Oct 2023 Interview with Rafael Epstein. Catherine Cashmore discusses the benefits of the Vacant Residential Land Tax following REIV (ex) CEO Quentin Kilian.
The Age
24 May 2023 ‘This will increase rents’: Economists weigh in on premier’s claim land tax won’t hit tenants
The New Daily
3 February 2022 ‘Nothing we can do’: The RBA says it is not to blame for soaring house prices. So who is?
The Fifth Estate
20 April 2021 ‘Runaway land prices undermine housing utility’. Op Ed by Karl Fitzgerald.
The Age
2 Dec 2020 ‘Melbourne’s 69,000 ‘ghost homes’ add to housing affordability woes’
The Age
26 Oct 2019 ‘Public or private housing? There’s an in-between solution’. Op Ed by Emily Sims
The Age
12 June 2024 Landlord rates could double under this councillor’s contentious housing propos
Australian Financial Review
24 Nov 2023 ‘The economy is being driven by a ‘bankocracy’ housing boom’
The Age
22 May 2023 ‘Building more homes ‘won’t guarantee cheaper rents’
NORTH WEST STAR
26 July 2022 ‘Land banking’ costs Aussies $6b: report
Pearls & Irritations
3 December 2021 Emily Sims op ed on Windfall Gains Tax
Crikey
14 September 2021 ‘Here’s another curve to flatten: the soaring cost of housing’

The Conversation
4 Sep 2018 ‘Introducing land rent, the ACT’s excellent idea for making houses cheaper’
ABC News
7 April 2024 ‘Why did land disappear from some economic models?’
ABC News
17 Sep 2023 ‘Australia would be raising $70 billion a year from the carbon price if it wasn’t dismantled, Ross Garnaut says’
Macro Business
24 Mar 2023 Interview: Prepare for the Immigration Time Bomb
The Age
26 July 2022 ‘Land banking’ by big developers driving up property prices: report
Independent Australia
6 November 2021 ‘Eddie Obeid is a symptom of a greater problem’. Op Ed by Karl Fitzgerald
Independent Australia
31 August 2021 ‘Uniform resource rent tax for a better future’
AFR
1 August 2019 ‘Policy nudges could swap stamp duty for land tax’

The Conversation
17 July 2017 ‘Taxing empty homes: a step towards affordable housing, but much more can be done’
ABC News
31 March 2024 ‘What do land tax, Monopoly, and Australia have in common?;’
Australian Financial Review
22 Sept 2023 ‘Andrews ignored advice to axe stamp duty in housing plan’
Australian Financial Review
1 Jun 2023 ‘Does land banking push up housing prices?’
The Conversation
8 Aug 2022 ‘The case for degrowth: stop the endless expansion and work with what our cities already have’
The Age
26 July 2022 ‘We hear crickets’: Calls for watchdogs to stamp out land banking
The Fifth Estate
12 July 2021 ‘Fear mongering over property taxes helps nobody: developers and the community can both win’. Op Ed by Emily Sims & Gerard Lind of SGS Economics

Urban
8 Dec 2020 More than 80,000 empty properties in Melbourne: Prosper Australia report
AFR
8 April 2019 ‘Investors keep 16.2pc of Melbourne apartments vacant’