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Category Archives: Brisbane
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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City of Brisbane Investment Corporation should be shut down
In a victory for transparency, Brisbane ABC reporter Tim Swanston has finally got hold of PwC’s scathing review of Brisbane City Council’s City of Brisbane Investment Corporation, its so-called future fund. I recall discussing the rumoured existence of a damning … Continue reading
Outer-lying suburbs like Townsville’s Deeragun the most fertile
I am very pleased to be mentioned on the front page of today’s Townsville Bulletin in Tess Ikonomou’s article Townsville suburb Deeragun crowned NQ’s most fertile (pay-walled, sorry). As I told the Bulletin, in many cities, population pressures, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, brisbane, cairns, deeragun, fertilityrate, population, qld, queensland, replacementrate, townsville
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Concentration of Qld population in SEQ expected to increase with its higher rates of net migration
Regarding my previous post noting SEQ’s dominance in population terms, regular QEW reader Mike Willis commented perceptively: Gene, it seems the concentration will be reinforced, if the most recent Qld government statistician’s report is any guide. State population growth is … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, brisbane, cairns, cassowarycoast, census, douglas, goldcoast, lga, migration, population, qld, queensland, seq, whitsunday
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Qld Councils & the 80/20 rule – 81% of Queenslanders live in just 12 out of 78 LGAs
In the final week of 2018, the Brisbane Times published an article The capital cities that ate Australia, which opened: They are the capital cities eating up the rest of Australia. Already home to more than two-thirds of the nation’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Population, Uncategorized
Tagged 200kmcity, 8020rule, abs, bcc, brisbane, brisbanetimes, councils, goldcoast, lgas, paretoprinciple, qld, queensland, seq
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Fact check: does a majority of Qld’s population live outside the South-East?
Today’s Courier-Mail editorial Parties neglect our regions at their peril contains an interesting factoid: …a majority of the population in this state lives outside the southeastern conurbation with a string of major provincial cities along a vast coastline… Is this correct? … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Population, Uncategorized
Tagged 200kmcity, brisbane, couriermail, goldcoast, population, qld, queensland, seq, sunshinecoast
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BCC residential parking permit zone in West End & Highgate Hill is bad policy
I have previously posted on the high cost of free parking, the problem identified by UCLA economics professor Donald Shoup that arises when councils do not properly price access to on-street parking (see Another example of the high cost of … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Uncategorized
Tagged bcc, brisbane, highgatehill, parking, toowong, westend
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