The paper reviews the taxation of property in Victoria and in particular the method of raising revenue for local government from rural landowners. A major contradiction between the apparent philosophical basis and its application is identified. A modification to the existing method of...

This study was based on the hypothesis that lenders to the rural sector have the potential to affect the rate of agricultural adjustment directly via capital formation. Multi-period linear programming models were developed to quantify the effects of lender policy on farm growth for wheat...

A method is outlined to test the stability of a plant location solution to changes in regional production. Supplies are generated within a probabilistic framework and used as input data for the usual otherwise static model. This approach also yields additional information on the probability of...