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The Challenge to Save a City
Planning News May June 2025 Buxton article Michael Buxton MPIA (Hon. Fellow) Emeritus Professor Environment and Planning, RMIT University, and a member of the Charter 29 group of professional planners
Victorian Labor’s: 63 New and increased Taxes
Since November 2014, the Andrews / Allan Labor Government has now imposed 63 new or increased taxes and charges including: 1. Increased Fire Services Property Levy (2015) 2. Introduced foreign stamp duty (2015-16 Budget) 3. Increased absentee landowner surcharge for foreigner property (2015-16 Budget) 4. A tripling of brown coal […]
Important work by Griffith University highlighting real risks for Victoria’s electricity supply
Important work was undertaken by Griffith University which points to real risks for the state in electricity supply and points to perverse outcomes likely to result from the Victorian state government’s enforced electrification approach and its anti-gas war. The paper by Paul Simshauser and Joel Gilmore, the Herald Sun story […]
The state government’s massive increases in gas exploration fees
The state government maintained a long-running ban on gas exploration and, even now this is officially lifted, its extreme and ideological anti-gas stance continues. Last year it quietly gazetted massive increases in exploration fees for permits like the 318% increase for a gas exploration permit pointed to in the Herald […]
Labor’s undemocratic, forced, high-rise, high-density dystopia across Melbourne
Petition against high density activity centers