The Modern Juggernaut
Taken from The Beacon, Nov 1st, 1893 (Melbourne) Juggernaut was a god of India, a monsterous idol, whose huge nostrils loved the scent of the blood of human sacrifice. When his great chariot was rolled...
View ArticleHenry George In New England
In May, 1890, Henry George delivered three public lectures in northern New South Wales, Australia. Reports of two of these lectures were recently discovered in the Dixson Library of the University of...
View ArticleWhy the “Sixties” did a 180 Degree Turn (or How the Aquarian Age Could Do a...
By Karl Williams - ” Whatever happened to the revolution? ” - ” We all got stoned and drifted away” Well, there might actually be quite a bit of truth in these Skyhooks lyrics – dope was firstly the...
View ArticleThe Victorian Baptist
Melbourne, April 1890 The motive of Mr Henry George’s mission to the colonies is one which all philanthropic minds must approve. His purpose is to better the condition of that large mass of mankind,...
View ArticleHenry George, Dr. Edward McGlynn, and Pope Leo XIII
Prof. Mason Gaffney A paper delivered to International Conference on Henry George, November 1, 1997, at Cooper Union, New York; Professor Edward O’Donnell, Chair Revised, November 22, 1997 1. Turbulent...
View ArticleGeorgism In Australia: The First Thirty Years
by Professor Geoffrey Hawker The Henry George Commemoration Address given on 1 September, 1996 Tonight we could anticipate the time a year hence when the life of Henry George, on the centenary of his...
View ArticleLand Value Taxation in Australia and Its Potential For Reforming Our Chaotic...
The Walsh Memorial Bequest Address delivered at Macquarie University School of Economics 27 May 1988 by MD Herps, FAIV, DipLaw (BAB), FSLE [Doug Herps was Deputy Valuer-General, New South Wales, and...
View ArticleEmpty Spaces
photo credit: euzesio Mason Gaffney February 2009 “Phantom faces at the window. Phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs at empty tables Where my friends will meet no more” – from Alain Boublil, Les...
View ArticleEconomic Slavery Explained
THE INQUISITIVE BOY By “SPOKESHAVE” (circa early 1900′s) Out of the vault – this sums up our message like few others – please pass it on What place is that, pa? That is a brickyard, my son. Whose...
View ArticleThe Best of Intentions
photo credit: JPD Photos AN EXPERIMENT IN INDIA The much travelled and well known author, Karl Eskelund, whose many books on foreign countries and their people have countless readers, describes the...
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