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Recent Posts
- Courier-Mail & 612 ABC Brisbane media this week regarding jobs growth & small business
- Bigger is better – small businesses once employed over half of private sector workers but no longer
- Unmissable upcoming Lowy Institute Choosing Openness paper launch with Andrew Leigh
- With One Nation as likely power brokers, expect greater share of Qld Gov’t CAPEX in regions
- Strong jobs figures for Qld, although much of recent increase was in part-time employment
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Top Posts & Pages
- Courier-Mail & 612 ABC Brisbane media this week regarding jobs growth & small business
- Bigger is better - small businesses once employed over half of private sector workers but no longer
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Michael Porter on Cairns's tourism cluster
- Townsville’s double digit unemployment rate signifies major downturn in region
- Protectionist Buy Queensland policy unlikely to survive in current form
- Post-Viridian, bodies corporate need economists - guest post by Stephen Thornton
- Growing interstate migration to Qld reflects improving economy & relatively more affordable house prices
- Gold Coast should worry less about its over-reliance on property, tourism and retail
- Queenslanders less active than other Australians - no surprise we lead Australia in obesity
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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Vacancies data support improving employment outlook in lead up to Qld election
Economists and market watchers were very excited yesterday by the May job vacancies data released by the ABS. Nationally, job vacancies were 1.6 percent higher (in seasonally adjusted terms) in May than in February, the time of the previous quarterly … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, jobvacancies, mining, qld, queensland
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Population Growth – Queensland’s recent slump (Guest post from Alistair Robson)
I am delighted to publish a guest post from my friend and fellow economist Dr Alistair Robson on the slowdown in Queensland’s population growth in recent years. GT Population Growth – Queensland’s recent slump By Dr Alistair Robson Queensland has … Continue reading
Posted in Population, Uncategorized
Tagged congestion, houseprices, nsw, nt, population, qld, queensland, victoria, wa
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Growing interstate migration to Qld reflects improving economy & relatively more affordable house prices
As well as releasing the first batch of 2016 Census data, the ABS also updated its quarterly population estimates yesterday, and I was very pleased to see net interstate migration to Queensland is picking up nicely (see chart below). This … Continue reading
Posted in Population, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, census, employment, interstatemigration, jobs, nsw, overseasmigration, qld, victoria
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CEDA report highlights AI & cloud threat to traditional accountants, with Xero and Bean Ninjas thriving
A new CEDA report I attended the Brisbane launch of at BCEC yesterday, Improving Service Sector Productivity, highlights the threat to accountants from machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that I posted on last year (see … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged accountants, accounting, ai, artificialintelligence, beanninjas, ceda, machinelearning, productivity, professions, services, xero
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NSW winning fiscal State of Origin
My former Treasury colleague and old friend Joe Branigan, now at Cadence Economics and SMART Infrastructure Facility, was quick to tweet a State-of-Origin themed chart yesterday following the release of the NSW State Budget (see Joe’s chart below). As noted … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Uncategorized
Tagged assetrecycling, assetsales, budget, infrastructure, nsw, nswtreasury, privatisation, qld, queensland, stampduty, stateoforigin
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Open data workshop at the Queensland Startup Precinct in TC Beirne Building
In the 2017-18 Queensland Budget handed down last Tuesday, among a large number of measures is the “Open data policy and action plan”, to which the Government is allocating just over $1 million over two financial years (see Budget Paper … Continue reading
Qld labour market continues to improve, but part-time jobs account for bulk of employment growth
Based on the latest labour force figures released by the ABS yesterday, the Queensland labour market appears to be improving nicely, which must be very pleasing to the State Government in the lead up to the next election. While the … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged fulltime, jobs, labourmarket, parttime, qld, qldeconomy, queensland, unemploymentrate
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