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- Priorities for boosting tourism in Qld
- Which suburbs of Brisbane had the largest increases in unemployment?
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Author Archives: Gene Tunny
Strata ‘Management Rights’ must be reviewed by the Qld Gov’t – guest post by Stephen Thornton
This guest post from my good friend and fellow economist Dr Stephen Thornton is on the costly rort that is strata management rights in Queensland. Views are Stephen’s and should not necessarily be attributed to me. GT The front page … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Uncategorized
Tagged apartments, managementrights, qld, queensland, strata, stratatitle
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Priorities for boosting tourism in Qld
Veteran ad man Don Morris AO spoke to the Property Leaders Brisbane group at the swanky Emporium South Bank hotel on Thursday night about how Queensland can boost tourism. Morris, now at Pure Projects, was part of the Mojo Advertising … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Tourism
Tagged brisbane, emporium, moretonbay, operahouse, qld, queensland, southbank, springhill, tnq, tourism, tradinghours
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Qld has gained $7 billion from GST revenue redistribution since 2000-01
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the forthcoming Australian Institute for Progress (AiP) discussion paper on the “golden handcuffs of federation” by well-known Queensland economist Dr John Fallon. Based on the blurb for the August 15 discussion paper launch, … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Uncategorized
Tagged budget, cgc, gst, hfe, qld, qldtreasury, queensland
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The deteriorating global outlook & Qld’s mining regions – initial thoughts
Each passing week I’m becoming more concerned about the global economic outlook and what it means for us here in Queensland, given that the strength of our resources sector is closely related to the strength of the global economy. My … Continue reading
Posted in Mackay, Mining, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, coal, cokingcoal, mining, qld, queensland
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Upcoming AiP event on “The golden handcuffs of federation”
The Australian Institute for Progress, a Brisbane-based conservative think tank, has a very interesting upcoming event on what some may consider the rather dry topic of horizontal fiscal equalisation, the complex methodology by which the Commonwealth Grants Commission determines each … Continue reading
States across Australia borrow to build – my recent state debt commentary
I’ve been talking a lot about Queensland state debt lately, including with the Infrastructure Association of Queensland’s Funders Taskforce on the morning of Friday 19 July. The main points I made were as follows. Queensland’s gross state government debt, on … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, debt, gocs, interest, netdebt, nsw, qld, queensland
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Qld can no longer blame a higher participation rate for its higher unemployment rate
Queensland has typically had a higher unemployment rate than the national average, and for many years this has been attributed by some commentators to Queensland having a higher workforce participation rate (and proportionately more people wanting to work).[1] But Queensland’s … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged labourmarket, participationrate, qld, queensland
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