Renegade Economists Show 199 Celebrating 4 years on air. Subscribe now. Global activist Polly Higgins discusses the legal moves to protect the environment from corporate entities. Listen here Her websites are: Trees Have Rights Too Eradicating Ecocide – the book Polly Higgins Polly is currently touring Australia. Following the interview we discuss our new documentary [...]

Download the Speculative Vacancies report As written up in The Age today, p5: Speculators ‘locking up’ empty dwellings that could be homes Michelle Griffin PROPERTY speculators have locked up 46,220 empty homes in metropolitan Melbourne, the housing campaign group Earthsharing Australia says. In a documentary soon to be released, Real Estate 4 Ransom, the group [...]

The Gillard Government’s Clean Energy Future plan signifies that the game is up for the free rider’s polluting our planet. The Carbon Tax of $23 per tonne of carbon for July 1 2012 – June 30 2013 sends a clear message that polluters must pay. In this age of compromise politics, the industry lobbyists who [...]

An interesting report by the Fels Institute of Government (University of Pennsylvania) was quoted in Yes Magazine: … [We] found that within 1/4 mile of one of Philadelphia’s 54 branches, the value of a home rose by $9,630. Overall, Philadelphia’s public libraries added $698 million to home values—which in turn generated an additional $18.5 million [...]

Author: Tom Curtis Research Director: Karl Fitzgerald Executive Summary We estimate the Speculative Vacancy Rate for Melbourne in 2011 to be 4.94% or 46,220 of 935,305 properties surveyed. Our Estimated Speculative Vacancy Rate is more than twice the REIV’s Rental Vacancy rate for the same period of 1.7%. The rental vacancy rate is the rate [...]