Karl Fitzgerald

Karl Fitzgerald is a cyclist and renegade economist, who devotes time as director of advocacy to Prosper Australia, a research institute with the goal of transferring taxes off the productive sector and onto monopoly interests. Karl creates an annual Speculative Vacancies Report that uses abnormally low water consumption as a proxy for vacancy. Karl recently established the Global Empty Homes Network along with US NGO Local Initiatives Support Cooperation and UK campaigners Action on Empty Homes. His monthly radio program and podcast, Renegade Economists, has been offering listeners heterodox economic perspectives for over twelve years

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.