Prosper Australia in North Melbourne, Victoria | Educational research centre

Prosper Australia

Locality: North Melbourne, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9328 4792

Address: Level 1, 64 Harcourt Street 3051 North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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

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23.01.2022 DURING THE PANDEMIC, there was widespread dismay as people hoarded toilet paper and hand sanitiser. We quickly censured canned food hogs but for the most basic of human needs shelter hoarders were encouraged to control housing opportunities.

15.01.2022 If you are struggling to save enough for your home deposit, you should be aware that wage growth is under such pressure because THREE times as many non-residential sites were VACANT as were SOLD last year. Check this highlights piece on our 10th Speculative Vacancies report.

11.01.2022 How Modern Civilization May Decline by Henry George From Progress and Poverty (1879), Book X, Chapter 4 A corrupt democratic government must finally corrupt the people, and when a people become corrupt there is no resurrection. The life is gone, only the carcass remains; and it is left but for the plowshares of fate to bury it out of sight.... Now this transformation of popular government into despotism of the vilest and most degrading kind, which must inevitably result from the unequal distribution of wealth, is not a thing of the far future. It has already begun in the United States, and is rapidly going on under our eyes. That our legislative bodies are steadily deteriorating in standard; that men of the highest ability and character are compelled to eschew politics, and the arts of the jobber count for more than the reputation of the statesman; that voting is done more recklessly and the power of money is increasing; that it is harder to arouse the people to the necessity of reforms and more difficult to carry them out; that political differences are ceasing to be differences of principle, and abstract ideas are losing their power; that parties are passing into the control of what in general government would be oligarchies and dictatorships; are all evidences of political decline. The most ominous political sign in the United States today is the growth of a sentiment which either doubts the existence of an honest man in public office or looks on him as a fool for not seizing his opportunities. That is to say, the people themselves are becoming corrupted. Thus in the United States today is republican government running the course it must inevitably follow under conditions which cause the unequal distribution of wealth. Where that course leads is clear to whoever will think. As corruption becomes chronic; as public spirit is lost; as traditions of honor, virtue, and patriotism are weakened; as law is brought into contempt and reforms become hopeless; then in the festering mass will be generated volcanic forces, which shatter and rend when seeming accident gives them vent. Strong, unscrupulous men, rising up upon occasion, will become the exponents of blind popular desires or fierce popular passions, and dash aside forms that have lost their vitality. The sword will again be mightier than the pen, and in carnivals of destruction brute force and wild frenzy will alternate with the lethargy of a declining civilization.

10.01.2022 Politicians only have to pawn their policies to insiders because they are required to pay so much for advertising on what was once known as the public airwaves. If monopoly owners of the radio, TV and web spectrums had to provide free advertising during elections as part of their social license, the pressure would reduce on our representatives. Still, such donations from property developers must be banned at the federal level, as well as state. C'mon Victoria!

07.01.2022 You can almost ring the spruiker’s bell with each line in this story! Needed - a running list categorizing policies as either supporting financialisation or affordability.