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  2. Land value tax in Australia - Wikipedia

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    South Australia was the first Australian state to introduce a land tax, based on the unimproved capital value of land, in 1884. [6] [7] In 1910, George Allen (first secretary to the Treasury) founded the Land Tax Office to service land taxes at the federal level as a form of wealth tax and as a means to break up large tracts of underutilised land.

  3. Land selection in Queensland - Wikipedia

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    The land was approved by the Land Board (renamed Court). The Land Board reported to the Minister on the fair value of the land to the owner, demand for land in the neighborhood, suitability of the land, permanency of water, probability of selection and absence of sufficient crown land in the area. [7]

  4. Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying is a museum at 317 Edward Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It collects and exhibits material relating to the surveying of Queensland and the maps created. It is a sub-branch of the Queensland Museum. [1] [2] It actively digitises and makes available historic maps and aerial imagery under open ...

  5. Land value tax - Wikipedia

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    A land value tax is a progressive tax, in that the tax burden falls on land owners, because land ownership is correlated with wealth and income. [3] [4] The land value tax has been referred to as "the perfect tax" and the economic efficiency of a land value tax has been accepted since the eighteenth century.

  6. History of Queensland - Wikipedia

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    The history of Queensland encompasses both a long Aboriginal Australian presence as well as the more recent periods of European colonisation and as a state of Australia. [1] Before being charted and claimed for the Kingdom of Great Britain by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, the coast of north-eastern Australia was explored by Dutch and French ...

  7. Australian property law - Wikipedia

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    Queensland: Property Law Act 1974 [14] Land Titles Act 1994 [15] Northern Territory: Law of Property Act [16] Land Title Act [17] South Australia: Law of Property Act 1936 [18] Real Property Act 1886 [19] Tasmania: Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1884 [20] Land Titles Act 1980 [21] Western Australia: Property Law Act 1969 [22] Transfer of ...

  8. Selection (Australian history) - Wikipedia

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    Selection is the act of choosing and acquiring a subdivided tract of land for farming purposes in Australia. A selection is also descriptive of the plot of land that was selected. The term derived from "free selection before survey" of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. These acts were ...

  9. Lands administrative divisions of Queensland - Wikipedia

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    The 319 counties of Queensland in 1901. Lands administrative divisions of Queensland refers to the divisions of Queensland used for the registration of land titles. There are 322 counties, and 5,319 parishes within the state. [1] [2] They are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia. Queensland had been divided into 109 counties ...

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