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Prosper Australia urges the government to embrace real reform that ensures prosperity is shared by all.
For the first time, the government is consulting on a Land Use Framework for England. It’s an important step, but there’s a long way to go.
By George Monbiot. This is my response to the government’s Land Use Consultation, sent on 23rd March 2025.
As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st March 2025
If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.
We face a potential global food crisis, and no one is secure until everyone is secure.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th March 2025
I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same.
Value capture is an equitable and efficient funding mechanism to support the development of high speed rail. It ensures that those who benefit the most from high speed rail contribute to its cost.
Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought together researchers, advocates, people with lived experience, and economists to examine how […]
There was an ostensible “news” article on the ABC news site about Trump’s executive order (EO) titled “DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.” The capitalisation is not mine; it is in the executive order FFS! The Whitehouse is becoming an ALL_CAPS tweet factory.
Could Trump and Musk be seeking to end our time on Earth?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th March 2025
In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?
If the US is now our enemy, how do we defend ourselves?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th February 2025
All the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a voice in public life appears to be avoiding a much bigger and more troubling question: how we might defend ourselves against the US.
By defending the UK’s draconian anti-protest laws, Labour is laying the ground for an authoritarian government.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2025
If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.
Prosper Australia today expressed deep disappointment at the Victorian Government’s continued failure to implement value capture mechanisms in its recent upzoning announcements. By allowing landowners to reap windfall gains without returning a fair share to the community, the government has missed a vital opportunity to fund essential infrastructure and public services.
Trump’s assaults on governance could trigger systemic collapse. Here’s how it might happen, and how we can prepare.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th February 2025
This is how Labour’s war on regulations will stymie its own policies. It is irrational and self-destructive.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th February 2025
This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core programme now appears to be the same as Donald Trump’s: dismantling the administrative state. There’s less theatre, but the results could prove harder to contest. Absurd? Consider the evidence.
What could $27 billion fund if Commonwealth-state transfers were adjusted to bring revenue and expenses for each level of government closer to balance?