1st Edition

Radicalized Real Estate Agents and the Rise and Resilience of the Australian Policy for Real Estate Carry

By John S. F. Wright Copyright 2026
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study: the rise and resilience of the Australian policy for Real Estate Carry. The text tracks investments of meaning and identity in the Australian policies for Negative Gearing (1987) and the Capital Gains Tax Discount (1999), through which successive federal governments inadvertently created scope for a dangerous and... Read more

Introduction

1. What is Policy Change and the Failure to Achieve it?

2. The Dislocatory Movement and Means for Clarifying Identity and Meaning in Policy Regimes

3. The Tax Reform Period (1984–1987)

4. The Capital Gains Period (1996–2007)

5. The Policy Reform Period (2015–2019)

6. The Simulated Reform Period (2019–2024)

Conclusion

Biography

John S. F. Wright is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.