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Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership

Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership

1. Background In Australia, local government is established under State/Territory legislation and its structures, powers and functions are determined by that legislation. In all jurisdictions in the last 10-15 years, the relevant legislation creating and regulating local government has been reviewed and significantly amended or replaced with new legislation that gives local councils greater gen...

Land ownership changes in Savad (Iraq) during the first period of Muslim conquests

The fall of the Sassanids changed the political, economical, social and cultural structures of Iran’s society. Changing land ownership was one of the consequences of this fall. Despite the importance of this issue, land ownership changes after the Muslim conquests of Savad (Iraq) have been less considered. The main question of this study is what kind of lands were in Savad and after the dominan...

Effects of ownership expressed by the first-person possessive pronoun.

The present study examined the behavioral effects of the first-person possessive pronoun. In each trial, a noun (e.g. cup or bread) was presented to participants after visual presentation of a possessive pronoun "wo de" (Chinese for "my") or "ta de" (Chinese for "his"), which formed ownership. Half participants were assigned to contextual encoding (CE) condition in which they were required to j...

Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into First Home Ownership