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A Fair Price, The Land Commission Program, 1972-1977 by Patrick N. Troy, B.EC. (W.A.), DIP.T.P. (Lond.), M.TECH. (N.S.W.), Fellow, Urban Research Unit, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. (Hale & Iremonger, 1978), pp. i-xv, 1-326. Cloth, recommended retail price $17.95 (ISBN: 0 908094 07 8); Paperback, recommended retail price $8.95 (ISBN: 0 908094 15 9).

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A Fair Price, The Land Commission Program, 1972-1977 by Patrick N. Troy, B.EC. (W.A.), DIP.T.P. (Lond.), M.TECH. (N.S.W.), Fellow, Urban Research Unit, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. (Hale & Iremonger, 1978), pp. i-xv, 1-326. Cloth, recommended retail price $17.95 (ISBN: 0 908094 07 8); Paperback, recommended retail price $8.95 (ISBN: 0 908094 15 9).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Quintin Johnstone
Quintin Johnstone*
Affiliation:
Yale Law School
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Federal Law Review , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 116 - 120
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Copyright © 1980 The Australian National University

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References

1 For comparisons with American experience, see Johnstone, “Government Control of Urban Land Development in Australia: A Model for Comparison” (1977) 51 Tulane Law Review 547.

2 Among opposition expressions that merit consideration are negative statements about land commissions made in the Commonwealth Parliament and State Parliaments and similar commentary in The Developer, the trade journal of the Urban Development Institute of Australia. Also see Bentick, The Respective Roles of the Land Commission and the Private Sector in Land Development in South Australia (1975); Jackson, “Residential Land” in Building Science Forum of Australia, New South Wales Division, 22nd Conference Papers (1974); and Murphy, “The Introduction of the Land Commissions and the Future of the Urban Land Development Industry” (1975) 47 Australian Quarterly, no. 4, 37.