Earthsharing Australia in North Melbourne, Victoria | Consultation agency

Earthsharing Australia

Locality: North Melbourne, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9328 4792

Address: 64 Harcourt St 3051 North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.earthsharing.org.au/

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25.01.2022 Land price takes the gains.

25.01.2022 About 56% of lobbyists previously worked within government. It really is a lobbyocracy! #corruption

25.01.2022 Rising rents claim another small business. The cascade works like this: property speculators bid prices up and over time rents city-wide follow. Some small, boutique landlords who bought decades ago keep rents based on that purchasing price. Creativity etches out a future in these small pockets. Eventually time comes knocking as a change in circumstances for the boutique landlord leads to whammo - a doubling of the rent for businesses like Horse Bazaar! The recent closure of ...The Lounge was another such example. As we said over a decade ago Artists set the scene, Speculators wipe it clean. If instead our society raised revenues based on a land tax, the speculative profits would not be there. Thus the rate of change, the gentrification, would be much slower and more in line with wage growth. As the rent gouge devours global culture and everything in between, study these essential factors to life on earth so you can ..... reclaim your sovereignty.

25.01.2022 Save this for a considered read: the dangers that now threaten must disappear, the forces that now menace will turn to agencies of elevation. Think of the powers now wasted; of the infinite fields of knowledge yet to be explored; of the possibilities of which the wondrous inventions of this century have given us but a hint. With want destroyed; with greed changed to noble passions; with the fraternity that is born of equality taking the place of the jealousy and fear that now array men against each other; with mental power loosed by conditions that give to the humblest comfort and leisure; and who shall measure the heights to which our civilization may soar?"

24.01.2022 Timeline personified. We can’t afford rent-seekers anymore.

24.01.2022 Looking at our mainstream institutions, economics and beliefs, it’s clear that we’ve been collapsing for a while. A pandemic punctuates the catabolic curve with an eye-popping shock set against systemic processes bedrocked as background, never foreground.

24.01.2022 Here’s a long read on creative spirits, precarity, homelessness, access to the commons and a place to call home. A sense of defiance is freedom. #qualityjournalism

23.01.2022 "The Centre for London reported in September 2019 that only 2% of the people surveyed expected developers to be honest, and only 7% thought that their local authority would negotiate the best deal for them. The figures are staggering; volume housing builders expect to make a profit of between 20% and 100% on large developments. To put this into context, Thomas Piketty in his book Capital identifies the average annual rate of return on capital to be 3-4%."

22.01.2022 Great to see some true cost economics thinking here in Melbs: ‘the council charges developers for not only tree replacement but also the dollar equivalent of lost amenity and ecological values. It gets very expensive to remove a large tree once you factor in all the valuable services it provides. When a tree is a metre thick, costs can exceed $100,000 and that’s if there are no alternatives to removal.’

21.01.2022 Give a man a fish, youll feed him for a day. Tell a man you own the ocean, but would be happy to rent him a fishing spot and hell feed you for the rest of his life.Give a man a fish, youll feed him for a day. Tell a man you own the ocean, but would be happy to rent him a fishing spot and hell feed you for the rest of his life.

20.01.2022 Monbiot does it again - quite a read. Not only will food be cheaper, it will also be healthier. Because farmfree foods will be built up from simple ingredients, rather than broken down from complex ones, allergens, hard fats and other unhealthy components can be screened out. Meat will still be meat, though it will be grown in factories on collagen scaffolds, rather than in the bodies of animals

20.01.2022 Charles Eisenstein: "What can guide us, as individuals and as a society, as we walk the garden of forking paths? At each junction, we can be aware of what we follow: fear or love, self-preservation or generosity. Shall we live in fear and build a society based on it? Shall we live to preserve our separate selves? Shall we use the crisis as a weapon against our political enemies? These are not all-or-nothing questions, all fear or all love. It is that a next step into love lies before us. It feels daring, but not reckless. It treasures life, while accepting death. And it trusts that with each step, the next will become visible."

19.01.2022 The future awaits!

18.01.2022 So many good quotes in this long read. That in a country that believes so strongly in fairness, and hard work, and enterprise, and innovation, and meritocracy, the single biggest cost burden on most households and most businesses is a kind of fee, paid by poor people to rich people, for no work. Just for having money in the first place.

18.01.2022 An 11 year investment that returns over 8000%. A Rezoning Windfall Gains Tax could ensure that the public shares in the 'golden pen tick' that delivers so many millions for the 'lucky' property owner. This has happened so many times it should be everyday knowledge by now.

17.01.2022 Heres a long read on creative spirits, precarity, homelessness, access to the commons and a place to call home. A sense of defiance is freedom. #qualityjournalism

17.01.2022 Hey peeps in less than half an hour we will be breaking down the Coronavirus economic situation, including the recently announced Vic Govt rental package. So much is happening so fast! Let's hope the public interest can be maintained. Join Karl Fitzgerald and Jesse Hermans as we keep an eye on monopoly interests. Join Zoom Meeting - 12.30 today https://zoom.us/j/94811967978

16.01.2022 Prosper Australia director of research Karl Fitzgerald said there was a missed opportunityalthough the tax was brought in, it was not properly enforced and investors were still choking the supply. Quite a few housing advocates are simmering with rage because weve seen such a dramatic rollback of housing supply, Fitzgerald said. More and more people are having their finance approved but cant find property to buy.

16.01.2022 Let's make this happen!

16.01.2022 Interesting how fast this new buzzword is moving. Co-living the new new term developers are using to greenwash away Co-Housing. Neither concept will deliver long term affordability if they don't capture the rising value of that location via some form of leasehold/ land value tax.

16.01.2022 If by chance anyone here lives around Castlemaine, Karl Fitzgerald will be talking about earth rights, affordability, the green new deal this sunday at the Castlemaine Trades Hall, 127 Moyston St, 2-230pm. Audience - a Greens discussion group. With the latest national accounts out tomorrow, alongside of a host of other data points revealing the pressure we are all facing to place called home, there's plenty to discuss.

15.01.2022 "We tend to focus on stuff that is monopolistic in structure.where the landlord has a piece of real estate that you cant leave. Digital real estate."

15.01.2022 Here comes the tsunami. The intrigue is whether developers will be able to cut supply quick enough to counter the lack of uni students and immigrants. We expect not, but still they will try. SQM yesterday: "All capital cities recorded decreases in property listings over the month with Melbourne recording the highest decrease at 13.2%." The next wave will be indebted investors forced to sell.

14.01.2022 Oh noes not the beloved Kevin McCloud too! High land prices destroy architectural dreams

13.01.2022 Here it comes, real estate downturn followed by stock market? Will Biden bail out property investors to stave off banking liquidity? "By December, they were behind on $395 million of debt backed by mortgage bonds, almost 150 times the level a year earlier, according to Trepp data on commercial mortgage-backed securities."

12.01.2022 So many good quotes in this long read. ’That in a country that believes so strongly in fairness, and hard work, and enterprise, and innovation, and meritocracy, the single biggest cost burden on most households and most businesses is a kind of fee, paid by poor people to rich people, for no work. Just for having money in the first place.’

12.01.2022 'The private sector wouldn't touch it with a barge pole': Coal stoush continues as power prices fall.

12.01.2022 Timeline personified. We cant afford rent-seekers anymore.

10.01.2022 "When the Brooklyn Navy Yard slowly declined after it was decommissioned in the 1960s, it could have been sold to a vulture fund to convert it to condos. Instead, the city put the yard under the control of a nonprofit development organization that generated a rebirth of manufacturing, innovation and entrepreneurship, beginning in the mid-1990s. Today 500 companies employ over 11,000 people in good jobs there, and an innovative high school prepares young people for STEM careers. When Covid-19 hit, many of those companies started manufacturing P.P.E. together."

08.01.2022 An economy built on property speculation is cornered by pay check to pay check precarity. Learn how to save seeds, produce compost and grow food. Now!

07.01.2022 Looking at our mainstream institutions, economics and beliefs, its clear that weve been collapsing for a while. A pandemic punctuates the catabolic curve with an eye-popping shock set against systemic processes bedrocked as background, never foreground.

05.01.2022 The irony of a mining billionaire promoting a tax on polymer but adamant a carbon tax is wrong ....

04.01.2022 Steve Keen on bogus climate assumptions: "Even a 6C increase in global temperature, he claimed, would reduce GDP by just 8.5%."

04.01.2022 'The common factor in all these articles is their conflation of the interests of the ultra-rich with the interests of the middle classes. While our proposals take aim at the oligarchs, and would improve the prospects of the great majority, they are presented as an attack on ordinary people. Progressive taxation, the protection of public space and good homes for all should strike terror into your heart.'

04.01.2022 "A Lake Betoota duplex sold for nearly $200 000 above reserve over the weekend and that’s got one local couple downhearted. Last Friday, they thought it was well within their half-million-dollar budget. Two young professionals with good jobs and no children, they say, should easily be able to service that mortgage. So did their bank manager down at Diamantina Mutual."

04.01.2022 Victoria is facing a massive backlog of public transport investment as a result of short-termism and hazy project appraisal processes. The good news is these projects shouldat least in partpay for themselves. And we can build it in a 10-15 year period, rather than 30 plus years. This can be achieved by making the shift to a value creation based funding model.

04.01.2022 As we slide closer to the F-word, a useful backgrounder on Serco. Incredible expenditures on an org we know precious little about.

03.01.2022 "the privilege to lord and the privilege to pollute are one and the same, and that confronting the climate crisis means a confrontation with unregulated capitalism." The Renegade Economists podcast is back! https://www.prosper.org.au/20//gauging-the-green-new-deal/

02.01.2022 Our new report, breaking through political hurdles with the art of political economy.

01.01.2022 One of the world's most switched on economists just happens to be in Melbourne in a few weeks. Invite your friends to this one. Have monetarists snookered themselves?

01.01.2022 Great to see some true cost economics thinking here in Melbs: the council charges developers for not only tree replacement but also the dollar equivalent of lost amenity and ecological values. It gets very expensive to remove a large tree once you factor in all the valuable services it provides. When a tree is a metre thick, costs can exceed $100,000 and thats if there are no alternatives to removal.

01.01.2022 Subsidising coal mines as the world tackles climate change is bad enough. Subsidising coal mines and unregulated monopoly assets would be plain stupid.