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Based on the theory of American land reformer, Henry George, single tax movements proposed the abolition of all taxation save that on the unimproved value of land.

While George was not a socialist, in Australia and South Australia in particular where the movement was strongest, single tax policies were generally seen as socialist or as paving the way to socialism.

Single tax movements were strongest in the late nineteenth century, but a remnant remain active.

See Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)

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Books

• Johnston, Alexander W., The new utopia, or progress and prosperity: an exposure of the evils produced by unwise legislation and a suggestion of the means whereby they may be remedied, Turner and Henderson [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1890. Image PDF Details
• Rayment, A.W., The rights of labor; and how to obtain them, Printed for the proprietor and publishe[r], H.S.Taylor, by Hutchison, Craker and Smith, Adelaide, 1891, 31 pp. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details

Newspapers

• Singer, Ignatius (ed.), Our Commonwealth, vol. 1, no. 1, 1886, 8 pp. Image PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Socialism in Sydney', The Radical (Hamilton, Newcastle, N.S.W.), 21 September 1887, p. 210. Image PDF Details
• 'Our Programme', The Pioneer (Adelaide), 2 May 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'The Late Hugh Gilmore', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 14 November 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
• 'The Shadow of Sorrow', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 2 November 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
• 'Editorial', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 24 December 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'Socialism that is not radical', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 16 April 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• 'Editorial', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 1, 1 May 1893. Image PDF Details
• 'Editorial', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 3, 1 July. Image PDF Details
• 'One man, one vote', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 6, 1 October 1893. Image PDF Details
• 'The industrial outcome of socialism', Beacon (Melbourne), 1894. Image PDF Details
• 'Editorial', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 2, 1 June 1893. Image PDF Details
• 'The depotism of socialism', Beacon (Melbourne), no. 11, 1 March 1894. Image PDF Details
• H. S. T., 'Parliamentary Echoes. A Glimpse into South Australian History.', The Pioneer (Adelaide), 22 August 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Transcript HTML Transcript PDF Details
• Jephcott, Sydney, 'A hymn for the dispossossed', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 6, 1 October 1893. Image PDF Details
• Jones, Ernest Charles, 'Song of the factory slave', Beacon (Melbourne), vol. 1, no. 11, 1 March 1894. Image PDF Details
• Jones, Ernest Charles, 'Song of the lower classes', Beacon (Melbourne), 1 January 1894. Image PDF Details
• Mayer, Henry, 'Life on the Fringe', Observer, 23 January 1960. Image PDF Details
• Radical, 'A Plea for Unity', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

• Craigie, E.J., The Wakefield plan, Australian history leaflet. The Everade Letters. Supplement to Land and Wages.. Image PDF Details