Facts and Figures

Check out our world leading economic research, proving that long term history is more important than the next dividend payment. These are unique research papers as Australia is 1 of only 2 countries in the world  (NZ is the other) that calculates total national land values.

Taxable Capacity of Australia’s Resources (PDF 900kb)
Possibly the best of recent reports, Terry Dwyer explains how Australia could finance tax cuts and provide international tax competition for labour and capital tax bases through higher fiscal contributions from land revenues.

Collapsing Economies
Director of the Land Values Research Group, Bryan Kavanagh, looks at long term economic trends, analysing the Kondratieff Wave with the following question in mind: what is the catalyst to economic downturns? The evidence is compelling.

Total Resource Rents: Australia
Tony O’Brien’s ground breaking research, simply showing that resource rents can provide the finance to allow the great tax shift from labour and onto resources. This is world leading evidence.

The Poverty Enquiry to End all Poverty Enquiries
Another masterpiece of Tony’s containing our most powerful graph (Figure 3, p15). Essential reading for those in the poverty industry. We have hardcopies available (only $2 plus postage) from the office