The Office of Economic and Statistical Research (OESR) in Queensland Treasury released its latest Queensland Economic Review on Friday, and it contains some excellent charts showing surges in domestic online retailing (which is part of ‘other retailing’ in the first figure below) and mining investment (in the second figure below).

No doubt these trends will have profound implications for the structure of Queensland’s economy in five to ten years’ time – including the jobs we have and the bricks-and-mortar stores we still shop in.