Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly “rent” tax to Indigenous groups who claim to own the land’. Proposals of this sort have been put forth for more than 50 years. Now, in Victoria, this new Pay The Rent scheme proposes that non-Indigenous Australians pay 1 per cent of their annual income ‘as rent’, to be redistributed to Indigenous Australians.