Transcript: Regional Development, high-speed rail, and value capture: a bipartisan approach
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Community Tax Summit brings together voices for reform
Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day…
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 for the kind introduction.…
How I learned to stop worrying and love land value uplift
Presentation to the Planning Institute of Australia’s Victorian Conference, October 13, 2023 Today I want to take you on a rapid intellectual journey, a therapeutic crash-course, to convince you all to stop worrying about housing affordability – and instead, to…
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…
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…
Statement to the Commonwealth Inquiry into Housing affordability and supply
Prosper prepared the following opening statement to the Commonwealth Tax and Revenue Committee’s inquiry into housing supply and affordability: Prosper Australia welcomes the focus of this enquiry into the role of taxation and supply on housing affordability. We are a…
John Freebairn: Treasurers Can’t Sell Reform
The transcript from John Freebairn’s presentation at the 123rd annual Henry George Commemorative dinner. John Freebairn: Thank you Andy and Karl, ladies and gentlemen. So what I want to do today, tonight I guess, is make the argument why…
Clyde Cameron advocates for Land Tax in Federal Parliament: 1968
Mr. Clyde Cameron AO was the member for Hindmarsh in South Australia. These speech extracts were published in Progress Magazine, December 1968. One of the biggest difficulties for people wanting to build a house today is to find a suitable…
A Speech For Land Tax – 1988 Victorian Parliament
This speech is taken from Progress Magazine Issue No. 936, February 1988. It’s by Morris Williams, member for Doncaster and a past president of Prosper Australia (then known as Tax Reform Australia). SPEECH FOR LAND TAX IN THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT…