Economic justice, not Left and Right
By Bryan Kavanagh, cross-posted from Online Opinion, March 29th 2016
The Australian Federal Treasury publication “Architecture of Australia’s tax and transfer system” (August 2008) made a valid observation:
… Read moreWhile there are at least a hundred taxes, they all ultimately
Well either I’ve woken up in a parallel universe (no doubt related to the recent proof of the existence of gravitational waves), or the most blindingly obvious imbalances in our tax system have suddenly become imperatives for tax reform for … Read more
Cross-posted from Prosper.org.au, by Karl Fitzgerald, February 6th 2016
The Property Council of Australia’s shameless threat to both sides of politics to look the other way on negative gearing reform is a slap in the face to the democratic … Read more
You’d have to be have been living under a rock to have missed the widespread consternation about the role of foreign investment (read foreign ownership – a crucial distinction) in Australian domestic real estate over the last few years. In … Read more
Like all marketing exercises, real estate is primarily sold by exploiting our fears. In order to exploit our fears, marketers must first stoke fears. And the stoking of fear requires one or more invented problems, which we must be taught … Read more