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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Brisbane to have a denser inner city, but urban sprawl as well
I’ve written before about how residential building development is being concentrated in a few former commercial areas in the inner city and outer suburban areas such as North Lakes and Springfield (Where is residential development occurring in the Brisbane metro … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, brisbane, buildingapprovals, gc, goldcoast, northlakes, springfield
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Tax and Federation White Papers sound promising on GST and stamp duty
I was very pleased to read in the Courier-Mail this morning that: Speculation is mounting the Abbott Government’s white papers on tax and federation reform, due by the end of next year, will include broadening the GST, and encouraging the … Continue reading
Public benefits of BIFF and BAPFF questionable
With pressing needs in health and education, it seems obvious to me that there is little public benefit from supporting film festivals, whether in the form of the former Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) or its replacement, the Brisbane Asia … Continue reading
Posted in Industry policy
Tagged bapff, biff, brisbane, film, filmindustry, industryassistance, qld, queensland, screenqueensland
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Government right to worry about State credit rating, not that of generators
I’m underwhelmed by a report in the Brisbane Times that the credit ratings of Queensland Government-owned power generators CS Energy and Stanwell will drop if they are privatised: Credit ratings agency Fitch has given the Electrical Trades Union its latest ammunition in … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Queensland Government
Tagged assetsales, csenergy, privatisation, qld, queensland, stanwell
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Paul Romer backs Galt’s Gulch for Northern Australia
In her 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand imagined a libertarian community, Galt’s Gulch in Colorado, in which capitalists were free to live unconstrained by Government regulations and didn’t have to pay taxes to support the “moochers.” One of the … Continue reading
Posted in North Queensland
Tagged atlasshrugged, aynrand, northernaustralia, northqueensland, nq, paulromer, townsville
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