Archive for user: Peter Verwer
Australia is skint. Or so we’re told. Our federal and (most) state budgets are in the red.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 2 April 2013 9:22 AM |
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At some point societies must pay for what they want, go without or go broke. This reality can prove painful as the debacle in Greece shows.
Peter Verwer |
Friday, 1 February 2013 9:12 AM |
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Traditional environmentalists demonise growth, rail against consumerism and scorn market forces. A new breed of green modernists are pro-technology, pro-cities and pro-growth.
Peter Verwer |
Saturday, 1 December 2012 9:45 AM |
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Imagine a corporate reporting season where all listed company CEOs said, “Look, there’s no point in providing performance targets – markets are too volatile, it’s simply too hard to pick trends, and besides, if I provide you shareholders with targets, you’ll hold me to them.”
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 November 2012 9:35 AM |
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The CFMEU is at it again. Its recent blockades of several prominent construction sites signal a deep-seated contempt for civil society.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 1 October 2012 9:18 AM |
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Kiwi buildings never wear out. No scientist can explain how this miracle transpires. Is it some magical elixir, or an undiscovered fountain of building youth effervescing from a Rotoruan hot spring that wards off obsolescence?
Peter Verwer |
Saturday, 1 September 2012 9:34 AM |
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The Federal Government’s doubling of withholding tax (WHT) is the wrong decision, based on the wrong advice, implemented at the wrong time. It’s also a done deal politically.
Peter Verwer |
Wednesday, 1 August 2012 9:26 AM |
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In early 1890s France there were few horrors as immediate as the dreaded ‘bicycle face’. The invention of the pneumatic tyre had transformed travel by the once treacherous two-wheeled contraption into a popular pastime.
Peter Verwer |
Sunday, 1 July 2012 9:36 AM |
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Just six days after Martin Ferguson told the world “it is time everyone understands Australia is not only a great place to visit but a great place to invest”, Treasurer Wayne Swan vowed to double taxes on international investors.
Peter Verwer |
Friday, 1 June 2012 9:32 AM |
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The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is the nation’s de facto board of directors.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 1 May 2012 9:07 AM |
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Wonk alert! This editorial is chock full of juicy stats. How big is our industry and what does it contribute to the community? Here are the answers …
Peter Verwer |
Sunday, 1 April 2012 9:34 AM |
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When Paul Keating snarled that John Hewson was “a shiver looking for a spine to run up”, the virtues of courageous political reform were a given – a badge of honour.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 March 2012 9:06 AM |
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Australia has been tagged the “dumb blonde” of the world. It’s attractive, but shallow – a kind of Pacific Paris Hilton, “living every day as if it’s your birthday” from inherited, unearned resource riches.
Peter Verwer |
Wednesday, 1 February 2012 9:24 AM |
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The Kerrigan family’s Castle, “filled with love as well as pride”, is slated for a makeover.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 December 2011 9:35 AM |
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The tax forum (aka summit) was a dud. Or at least that was the script written for it by the schadenfruedinistas in the media.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 9:01 AM |
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Imagine green grids of buildings and precincts that power themselves … renewably.
Peter Verwer |
Saturday, 1 October 2011 9:06 AM |
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Fallen governments subject themselves to a panoply of rituals.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 September 2011 9:32 AM |
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The Gillard Government’s proposed price on carbon raises questions for the property investment and development industries.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 1 August 2011 8:52 AM |
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With the nation's productivity at record lows and the looming 'baby bust', Peter Verwer looks at the Federal Government's research and development approach, or lack thereof.
Peter Verwer |
Friday, 1 July 2011 9:32 AM |
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After proposing dozens of times, the bride finally accepted our earnest solicitations, but is blushing more from embarrassment than innocence. That’s the general take on the Federal Government’s recently released ‘population strategy’.
Peter Verwer |
Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:15 AM |
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Inflation and talk of inflation-protected assets, like real estate, are in the news again.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 2 May 2011 1:25 PM |
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Australia is growing by a person every 87 seconds (net). This demographic dynamic relentlessly reshapes the demand for our national software and hardware.
Peter Verwer |
Friday, 1 April 2011 9:35 AM |
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The beating heart of our cities is its people. They run businesses, raise families and regard cities as a promise to help shape fulfilling lives and realise aspirations. How are our cities living up to this promise?
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 1:00 AM |
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It’s said politics makes strange bedfellows. Although Groucho Marx joked that marriage is a more outlandish bedfellow than pollies.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 6 December 2010 12:01 AM |
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They’re not as insightful as Alanis Morrisette: “I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realise that that’s not what happiness is.”
Peter Verwer |
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 12:01 AM |
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Imagine it’s 1970. The black and white telly is tuned to Brian Henderson’s Bandstand.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:01 AM |
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The 2010 election has produced at least one consensus – robust population growth is bad.
Peter Verwer |
Wednesday, 1 September 2010 6:00 AM |
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Here is a tale of two property industry standards.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 3 August 2010 3:33 PM |
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Australia’s cities are in rapid transition. The issue is: how do we manage the transition?
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 12 July 2010 1:29 PM |
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Like those agile French kids jumping, vaulting and somersaulting over street barriers, the Federal Government has been exercising new policy muscles.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:01 AM |
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Beware the Treasury economists’ variety of Tourette’s syndrome, which is generally betrayed by involuntary, wild-eyed outbursts of scorn for property investment.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 3 May 2010 12:01 AM |
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There’s a vaccine for red tape – it’s called a regulatory impact statement: a RIS.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 April 2010 1:01 AM |
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Which policy do you think delivers the biggest planet-saving dividend?
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 1 March 2010 9:07 AM |
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A popular GFC tagline was that the financial crisis was "too good to waste".
Peter Verwer |
Friday, 5 February 2010 8:00 AM |
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The news that Australia’s population is likely to grow by 13 million over the next 40 years has led to bulk orders of sackcloth and ashes.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 12:01 AM |
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The World Economic Forum recently awarded Australia’s financial systems and capital markets their number two ranking.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 2 November 2009 12:01 AM |
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This month we will connect Australia's national competition policy approach to the basic needs of property businesses.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 October 2009 12:01 AM |
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The Property Council has renewed its call to reform Australia’s strategic planning and development control systems.
Peter Verwer |
Friday, 4 September 2009 12:01 AM |
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“Show me the money” is a familiar refrain around property industry boardrooms.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 3 August 2009 12:01 AM |
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Australian property professionals now have their own manual for reporting on corporate responsibility performance.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 30 June 2009 12:01 AM |
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The politicians at the April G20 meeting may have heeded Oscar Wilde’s dictum that a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 4 June 2009 12:01 AM |
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Accelerated depreciation can deliver an economic boost, maximise green dividends and slash red tape, writes Peter Verwer.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 4 May 2009 6:00 AM |
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Parliamentary debates that spotlight the commercial property sector are as rare as Midnight Oil reunions.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 2 April 2009 6:00 AM |
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The Australian property sector faces the mass exodus of foreign banking credit. The consequent risk of a needless fire sale of commercially viable residential and non-residential property assets is clear and quantifiable.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 3 March 2009 6:00 AM |
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Australians pay 125 different types of tax, 115 of these raise less than 10 percent of total government tax revenue.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 12 February 2009 8:28 AM |
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The Australian economy is slowing from 100 to around 40 kilometres an hour, says Peter Verwer.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 11 December 2008 1:00 AM |
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It makes perfect sense to perform emergency repairs to a rickety house ...
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:23 AM |
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There’s more technological smarts in one teenager’s PlayStation than Australia’s entire planning system.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 9 October 2008 10:23 AM |
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Parts of the property industry have been in a darker mood of late.
Peter Verwer |
Monday, 4 August 2008 9:36 AM |
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Inclusionary zoning is the latest magic pudding response to Australia’s groaning housing affordability crisis.
Peter Verwer |
Sunday, 6 July 2008 4:48 PM |
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The first Rudd Government Budget sent positive signals to the property sector.
Peter Verwer |
Wednesday, 4 June 2008 6:00 AM |
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Now it’s serious. Supermodels are refusing payment in Greenbacks and mafi a bosses are hedging in Euros.
Peter Verwer |
Thursday, 1 May 2008 1:00 PM |
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By order of the Political Conduct Chamber of the Built Environment Council (PCCBEC), this month’s editorial has been replaced by the following statement.
Peter Verwer |
Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:00 AM |
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