Countering the Counter-Attack

Abstract

The process of rent seeking through land-housing development is tied to the disproportionate power wielded by property interests over government planning and other policies. This dynamic must be broken. So pervasive did the corruption associated with land become in New South Wales earlier this century, two state Labour government Ministers were gaoled, along with family members and, as I write the state’s anti-corruption body is investigating the conservative Premier who resigned when details of her intimate connection with a disgraced parliamentary member of her party who was involved in a corrupt property deal, came to light.