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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Productivity Commission says no rationale for State ownership of Energex and Ergon
Paul Syvret in the Courier-Mail today has a nice summary of the Productivity Commission’s latest report on Electricity Network Regulation. The Commission suggests there would be cost savings and lower power bills flowing from privatisation of electricity network businesses such … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged australia, electricity, energex, energy, ergon, pc, productivitycommission, qld, queensland
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State against State – Qld caught up to NSW in per capita output over 2000s
NSW was traditionally a more productive State than Queensland per head of population, as expressed in economic measures such as gross state product (GSP) per capita produced by the ABS. But Queensland’s economy caught up in per capita terms over … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, gsp, gsppercapita, mining, nationalaccounts, nsw, queensland, resources, resourcessector, stateoforigin
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Townsville beats Brisbane on economic fundamentals, says new RAI Insight database
Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill will be pleased the Regional Australia Institute has ranked Townsville very highly on economic fundamentals in its new Insight database, as it supports the Council’s case for investing in the region that will be expressed in its … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Townsville
Tagged australia, brisbane, buildingapprovals, queensland, raiinsight, townsville
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Slowdown in Qld mining sector jobs growth, but no slump like in WA yet
MacroBusiness had a good post the other day (Where are the job gains and losses?) based on the detailed quarterly ABS labour force data released on Thursday. MacroBusiness’s charts show very slow growth in mining employment in Queensland and a … Continue reading
Queensland regional unemployment maps, May 2013
I’ve prepared some maps based on the ABS regional unemployment rate data released yesterday. I’ve taken the numbers from Queensland Treasury’s briefing on the data, which presents 12-month moving averages of the ABS data to smooth out the high degree … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Cairns, Labour market, Wide Bay-Burnett
Tagged abs, labourforce, qld, qldtreasury, queensland, treasury, unemployment, unemploymentrate
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Qld records respectable population growth in 2012 – still waiting for interstate migration rebound
In 2012, Queensland’s population grew 2.0% to 4.61 million people, a respectable growth rate but only slightly above the Australian population growth rate of 1.8% and much lower than WA’s growth rate of 3.5% (see Queensland Treasury’s nice briefing on … Continue reading
Posted in Migration, Population
Tagged abs, australia, demographics, interstatemigration, population, qld, queensland, wa
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Drum opinion piece – Taxpayer money wasted chasing film productions
The ABC’s The Drum has published an opinion piece of mine: Taxpayer money wasted chasing film productions I see very little merit in Government assistance to the film industry, apart from supporting the creation of genuine Australian content that helps … Continue reading
Posted in Industry policy
Tagged abc, australia, captainnemo, drum, filmindustry, industryassistance, queensland, seahawk
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Traditional small business lobby much smaller than it once was – should make trading hours deregulation easier
While thinking about retail trading hours the other day, it occurred to me again that the relative decline in traditional corner stores means that arguments in favour of maintaining trading hours restrictions are much less compelling. Across Australia there has … Continue reading
Posted in Retail trade
Tagged cornerstore, iga, queensland, retailtrade, tradinghours
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Odd that Treasury is proposing barrier to entry for financial advisers
My former colleagues at the Commonwealth Treasury can generally be relied upon to defend the free market, but occasionally they fail to do so, as appears to be the case with new legislation relating to financial planners reported on by … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged australia, financialadvisers, financialplanners, freetochoose, miltonfriedman, treasury
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Queensland Plan survey – a mix of interesting philosophical and misguided questions
I found time today to fill out the Queensland Plan survey, which is meant to inform the Government’s development of a 30-year vision for Queensland. I did my best to answer the somewhat vague questions, a couple of which are … Continue reading
