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Our states are crying poor. They wouldn't if they charged for rezoning like the ACT

  • Written by: Cameron Murray, Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Throughout Australia, when land is rezoned from industrial to high-rise residential, a charge is levied to help fund the required infrastructure.

In NSW it is called an infrastructure contribution.

The NSW government is reviewing it in order to cut “red tape” and “fix the uncertainty”.

They are words that ought to...

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