Phillipe Legrain First published in The Times as Tax land: it can’t be hidden from the Revenue Filling the gaping hole in the Government’s finances is, in George Osborne’s words, the “great national challenge of our generation”. Unwise spending cuts and tax rises could sap economic growth; unfair ones provoke political unrest; inaction a market panic. Faced with a national … Read More
Housing Investors Crowd Out Community
photo credit: fMoya With auction numbers at record levels, it seems that the pursuit of the greater fool is well underway. Melbourne’s May auction levels were the highest on record and this coming weekend could see almost double the June average of properties up for sale. Yesterday’s ABS figures on housing lending shows how genuine home buyers are being increasingly … Read More
Community Radio Support!
It’s Radiothon time and we’d love you to support our radio show – the Renegade Economists. Visit here where you can donate whilst you write down what a terrific show the Renegades is! We need to raise over $600 to keep the show in prime time drive time. We’re on the air today at 5.30pm with none other than investigative … Read More
Earthsharing report reveals staggering 6.9% vacancy rate in Melbourne
Casey Jenkins has re-interpreted the‘I Want to Live Here‘ report with some useful graphs. As you may have read in the original report, we uncovered a genuine vacancy rate five times that reported by Real Estate Institute of Victoria; 6.9% compared to REIV’s 1.4%. By collating data from Melbourne water suppliers we were able to assess the number of Melbourne … Read More
Gentrification Games Artists
What role is there for artists in a community? Long looked down upon as dole bludgers, why is life such a struggle for those who like to use image, texture and craft to express rather than words or numbers? After yesterday’s excellent article Fitzroy Snubs Gentrification on our upcoming Anti-Gentrification festival, a poorly written piece by Marcus Westbury must be … Read More