Renegade Economists Show 585 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 6 – 6.30pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Subscribe to the monthly podcast. Show Notes Renowned health economist Stephen Duckett (Grattan Institute) discusses our health system’s ability to…
Renegade Economists Show 584 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 6 – 6.30pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Subscribe to the monthly podcast. Please support 3CR’s annual subcriber drive, on now. Show Notes Based on our recent event…
Renegade Economists Show 583 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 6 – 6.30pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Subscribe to the monthly podcast. Show Notes Gary Flomenhoft (UQ) joins the show to dissect the evolving cov-19 conundrum. The…
The sudden, massive government intervention to bail out the entire economy in the face of the COVID-19 crisis has raised issues of private benefits received in return for bailout packages, especially for heavily impacted sectors. These interventions have been rolled…
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…
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 organisation campaigning for economic…
With interest rates at record lows, what are the implications for the Australian economy? What can be learnt from other nations? Josh presents some likely alternatives for policymakers to consider as the dangerous mix of loose credit alongside lax land…
Originally published by The Age. By Emily Sims, Director of Engagement at Prosper Australia There’s something awfully jarring about contemporary public land privatisations. When we’re side-stepping rough sleepers in the street, it seems incredible that a Labor government can’t find…
Renegade Economists Show 580 As broadcast on the 3CR airwaves 6 – 6.30pm on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Subscribe to the weekly podcast. Show Notes This is the seventh edition of our Georgist podcourse and again we delve…
Prosper has released our latest report, Stamp Duty to Land Tax: Designing the Transition by economist Dr. Tim Helm. The report challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that the highly sought-after stamp duty to land tax reform is too “politically difficult” to…