This paper examines the expanding purposes for which land is compulsorily acquired in Australia, and the evolving complexities in providing parity of value to dispossessed parties. Cases are examined in identifying the emerging purposes for land is acquired and a survey is used in exploring the impact of the types of acquisitions which encompass the...

This paper examines the relationship and emerging trends between State government taxes which impact on entry to homeownership and examines options for the move from transaction taxes to a recurrent tax on land.

This paper identifies factors in the evolution and operation of a carbon tax which should impact on the value of sustainable commercial office buildings.

This paper offers a theoretical inquiry into the institutional arrangements to enable an innovative land restitution model for Sydney within a new Republic, by vesting the superior interest in land (and buildings thereon) in the stewardship of the customary indigenous guardians (rather than the State or Crown).

This paper is a critique of the privatisation of the ‘Public Purpose Rule’ in the compulsory acquisition of land in Australia and United States.