Australia must protect or conserve nature on an additional 60 million hectares of land over the next five years. This paper examines how tax concessions for farmers and landholders who adopt conservation covenants might influence farmers' decisions to enter conservation covenants. It shows how the complexity and uncertain benefits of this incentive are likely limiting...

Australian capital cities are among the most expensive in the world, and the persistent shortage of affordable housing is a significant driver of housing overcrowding, particularly in the private rental sector. Health and wellbeing issues arise from closer contact between household members including increased spread of communicable infections, sleep disruption, lack of privacy and an...

Through Australia’s history, private developers have introduced restrictive covenants to property titles. Typical private covenants stipulate building materials, limit dwelling numbers, and prohibit particular land uses or the sale of alcohol. Covenants, like zoning, have tended to “put the single-family, owner-occupied home at the pinnacle of uses to be protected”, and have functioned as security...