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- LNP costings interview with Scott Emerson on 4BC
- 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"
- True Qld unemployment rate around 12%
- Woefully inadequate Qld budget update
- Qld Gov’t going for broke in COVID response
- Qld has highest unemployment rate, but we’ve actually coped with COVID-shock better than most states
- How did the Qld government accumulate so much debt?
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Official Qld unemployment rate of 7.9% doesn’t tell the full story
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Category Archives: Cairns
Qld’s regional economies & COVID-19 – video chat with Pete Faulkner
Earlier today I chatted with Pete Faulkner from Far-North-Queensland-based Conus Business Consultancy Services regarding how Queensland’s regional economies have been impacted by COVID-19. Check out the recording of our Zoom conversation below. You can download the slides we chatted about … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Cairns, Labour market, Mackay, Macroeconomy, Migration, Mining, North Queensland, Population, Tourism, Townsville, Uncategorized, Wide Bay-Burnett
Tagged australia, bundaberg, cairns, coronavirus, covid-19, fnq, gdp, goldcoast, jobs, northqld, nq, portdouglas, qld, queensland, unemployment, widebayburnett
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Economic impact of COVID-19 & policy responses webinar for QUT Centre for Data Science
The video recording of a webinar on the economic impact of COVID-19 I participated in last Friday is now available. The other panellists were Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute, Griffith Professor Tony Makin, and QUT Professor Pascalis Raimondos. My … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Gold Coast, Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, cairns, coronavirus, covid-19, goldcoast, grattaninstitute, griffith, hospitality, portdouglas, qld, queensland, qut, tourism, unitedstates
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State and regional unemployment rates in this time of COVID-19 with Pete Faulkner
Mission Beach-based economist Pete Faulkner from Conus Consulting has been in the news recently with his estimates of the massive adverse impacts that measures to combat coronavirus are having on Queensland’s regional economies (e.g. see the InQueensland report Jobless numbers … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Gold Coast, Labour market, Macroeconomy, North Queensland, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, cairns, conus, coronavirus, covid-19, gdp, goldcoast, jobkeeper, missionbeach, qld, queensland, townsville, unemploymentrate
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Catch up with CCIQ Chief Economist on dreadful business conditions & huge budget deficits
Yesterday afternoon I caught up with CCIQ Chief Economist Dr Marcus Smith for a phone interview on the coronavirus-induced recession/mini-depression, and you can listen to the recording here: Highlights include: 3:50 – discussion of forecasts for double-digit unemployment rates in … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Cairns, Gold Coast, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged anz, australia, cciq, coronavirus, covid-19, economy, jobkeeper, jobseeker, publicservice, qld, radicaluncertainty, recession, unemployment, unemploymentrate
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QEW week that was video – coal, negative gearing & the economic outlook
Posts from me and other commentators mentioned or alluded to in this video include: Housing industry round table with Treasurer Frydenberg at Parliament House Latest Qld wages growth and Qld labour market summary from Nick Behrens WTF happened to BNE-CNS? … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, China, Climate change, Housing, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, capitalgains, cashrate, china, coal, cokingcoal, dalian, glencore, housing, interestrates, negativegearing, qld, queensland, rba, westpac
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YIMBY, self-fulfilling prophecies, Cairns tourism & Qld GSP growth: Comments & questions on my outlook presentations
I’ve had several interesting comments and questions regarding my economic outlook presentations last week. YIMBY – Yes in my backyard In my Brisbane Club presentation last Wednesday Qld: Hot or not? I commented on Brisbane City Council’s temporary planning instrument … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, North Queensland, Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged cairns, economicforecasts, economists, gsp, igr, productivity, qld, queensland, teq, tourism, treasury, yimby
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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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My comments on NQ exit in ABC online story
Thanks to ABC state political reporter Josh Bavas for asking my opinion on the new state of North Queensland that has been proposed from time-to-time, most recently by Katter’s Australian Party and Queensland Senator Matt Canavan, Minister for Resources and … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, North Queensland, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abc, burnsphilp, gst, northqld, nq, royalties, townsville
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Qld regional unemployment rates facet wrap via R
Queensland is such a large and diverse state, with regional economies having vastly different drivers of growth (e.g. tourism in Cairns, mining in Mackay), that it’s often hard to get a sense of how different parts of the state are … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Labour market, Mackay, Migration, Mining, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, ggplot2, qgso, qld, queensland, r, unemployment
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