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- Why Greg Chappell came to Qld in 1973
- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
- Amusing costings of Qld election commitments - $4bn of Gov't election commitments reported to have zero "Net Impact"
- Qld exports were $21bn lower in 2020 due largely to lower coal and LNG prices
- Industry wants changes to Qld CHO emergency powers extension bill
- LNP costings interview with Scott Emerson on 4BC
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Line of 200 people for Gaythorne open house evidence of relative lack of suitable properties in Brisbane - partly due to restrictive zoning policies
- Why Qld's unemployment rate is highest in nation despite better jobs recovery during pandemic than rest of Australia
- JobKeeper has been stimulating in multiple ways - evidence from Lush Marcoola
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
LSE’s Stephen Machin to deliver public policy evaluation Winter school at O’Reilly’s, Gold Coast
Economists will often caution that correlation does not necessarily imply causation, or that causation may not run the way you expect. So, for example, the negative correlation between educational attainment and crime, that more educated people are less likely to … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Education, Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged crime, economics, education, esaqld, goldcoast, griffith, lse, oreillys, publicpolicy, quasiexperiments, qut, uq
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Interview with ABC Radio’s Steve Austin on “The time Australia’s Treasury almost ran out of money”
I had a nice chat with 612 ABC Brisbane’s Steve Austin last Friday morning regarding my time in the Australian Treasury, particularly during the financial crisis in 2008-09, and focusing on what he described as: The time Australia’s Treasury almost … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged aofm, ato, australia, bas, bonds, budget, cgs, debt, deficit, treasury
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Qld full-time employment still below level of five years ago, but hopefully is on the upswing
Queensland’s economic story over the last few years has been dominated by the end of the mining boom, which has had particularly adverse impacts in some Queensland regions, such as in the Fitzroy, Mackay and Townsville regions. The end of … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged fulltimejobs, jobs, miningboom, publicservice, qld, qldpol, qldpublicservice, queensland, queenslandtreasury, wa
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Palaszczuk will most likely beat Newman in jobs created over term of government
The Queensland Government looks likely to enter the next election campaign boasting a job creation record superior to the previous LNP Government’s. Let us put aside the debate over just how much credit governments deserve for job creation (but please … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, jobs, newman, palaszczuk, qld, qldpol, queensland
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NAIF $900M loan to Adani for mega-mine rail line is far from a first best solution, possibly second or third best
As a former Treasury official and long-time critic of industry assistance, I’m sympathetic to the Federal Opposition’s criticism of the expected $900 million soft loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) to Adani for the rail line to its … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Mining, Uncategorized
Tagged adani, australia, coal, megamine, mining, naif
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Upcoming celebration of bicentenary of Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation on Wednesday 19 April
Wednesday next week, the 19th of April, will be the bicentenary of the publication of the hugely influential Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by the English classical economist and stockbroker David Ricardo (1772-1823). It was a book that revolutionised … Continue reading
Posted in Trade, Uncategorized
Tagged brexit, esaqld, fortitudevalley, freetrade, globalisation, gpo, qut, ricardo, trade, trump
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Debbie hits Qld Budget, but QIC may help out Government by investing in Cross River Rail
Cyclone Debbie and the floods that followed have tragically resulted in the loss of at least five lives and have done billions of dollars’ worth of damage in Queensland and NSW. And through lower coal royalties (largely associated with an … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Cyclones, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged commonwealthgames, crossriverrail, crr, cyclonedebbie, ngr, qic, qld, queensland
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Still lots of room to boost population density in Brisbane
The vexed issue of heritage protection is in the news again, with controversy over the development of two apartment blocks behind the 1886 Clayfield heritage home Mundumburrah”, which will be raised and brought forward on its lot to accommodate the … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, bcc, brisbane, clayfield, heritage, housing, newfarm, populationdensity, queenslanders
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