Monthly Archives: December 2018

Qld less reliant on overseas migration as driver of growth than southern states

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Over 2018 I have commented regularly that the Queensland economy is under-performing relative to NSW and Victoria, and this has been reflected in the state’s unemployment rate remaining above 6% while the national rate has fallen toward 5%. It should … Continue reading →

Posted in Migration, Population, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Speech notes from Beautiful One Day, Broke the Next launch, 19 December 2018

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Me (Gene Tunny) & Julie from Connor Court at the launch of my new book Beautiful One Day, Broke the Next, at Connor Court Book Room, West End, Brisbane Beautiful One Day, Broke the Next Today’s Australian newspaper included the … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget, Queensland Government, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Gruen’s Evaluator General agency should be separate from federal Treasury

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Last month, federal Opposition assistant treasury spokesman and former ANU economics professor Andrew Leigh backed, in part, Nicholas Gruen’s excellent idea for a federal Evaluator General to oversee the evaluation of Commonwealth programs (see Building a better feedback loop). With … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

New Townsville – guest post by Colin Dwyer

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Gene Tunny

I am delighted to publish this guest post by Colin Dwyer of DS Economics on the Townsville economy’s improving prospects. The views expressed are Colin’s and should not necessarily be attributed to me. GT New Townsville In this essay Founder … Continue reading →

Posted in Townsville, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Recommended reading: This is Marketing by Seth Godin

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Last month, at the ESA-Griffith-QUT-UQ Economics Summer School held at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, Griffith University Senior Lecturer Andreas Chai gave a fascinating presentation on his research on consumption patterns. Here are the important points from Andreas’s report for UNIDO on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Coal, climate change, solar & batteries – why Qld Treasury wanted to offload the state’s energy assets

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Gene Tunny

The recent Financial Times report Development bank halts coal financing to combat climate change, reprinted in this morning’s AFR, should prompt some serious long-term thinking from the Queensland government and local governments with regional economies heavily dependent on coal mining, … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget, Mackay, Mining, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

ABC radio interviews on Beautiful One Day, Broke the Next & Qld Gov’t MYFER

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Earlier today I spoke with Steve Austin on his 612 ABC Brisbane Drive program about the Queensland Government’s Mid Year Fiscal and Economic Review and my recently published book Beautiful One Day, Broke the Next. While the state government today reported … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Joe Branigan’s award winning paper on the correct use of CBA and economic impact analysis

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Congratulations to my old friend and fellow Queensland economist Joe Branigan of SMART Infrastructure Facility for his award-winning paper on assessing the value of regional public infrastructure (see photo below). In his paper, published in the Australasian Journal of Regional … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

My book launch at Connor Court Christmas party, Wednesday 19 December at Boundary St, West End

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Gene Tunny

My new book Beautiful One Day, Broke the Next covers Queensland’s state finances over the last thirty years, during which time Queensland went from being the exemplar of sound public finance in Australia to a cautionary tale of the dangers … Continue reading →

Posted in Budget, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Qld economy continues to disappoint

Posted on December 6, 2018 by Gene Tunny

Queensland’s economic under-performance, which I’ve been commenting on regularly (e.g. see Deloitte’s weird definition of “strong employment growth”), is a major part of the reason why Australia’s GDP growth for September quarter came in lower than expected yesterday. The ABS … Continue reading →

Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments