Forget about releasing new state and commonwealth land. If we want to get serious about housing affordability, maybe it's time to re-think stamp duty, so that you pay it when you sell the house rather than when you buy it. Better still: why not stamp out stamp duty entirely and replace it with a land...

During the X-Media Lab conference entitled, 'Digital Worlds: Social, Virtual, Mobile'. held in Melbourne from 10 - 12 August 2007, ABC Radio National reporter James Panichi interviewed Indian filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur and American Brian Gruber, the founder and CEO of San Francisco based FORA.TV. FORA.TV is a website where academics and those involved in conferences...