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- Qld construction industry outlook for 2019 discouraging despite #BNE2025 projects
- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
- Economic impacts of the North & North West Qld floods – Initial views
- The deteriorating global outlook & Qld’s mining regions – initial thoughts
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Category Archives: Climate change
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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Top 10 posts from the first 1,000
Yesterday I posted my 1,000th post, and below are links to the most clicked from the first 1,000. Having grown up in Townsville, and knowing the intense debate the issue causes up North, it didn’t surprise me that a post … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Climate change, Labour market, Townsville
Tagged cairns, carbontax, nq, qld, queensland, townsville, unemployment
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Carbon tax repeal good news for Qld economy
I’m very pleased the Senate will allow the repeal of the carbon tax (Carbon tax to be abolished on third attempt), given that: Queensland would have been disproportionately affected due to our heavy reliance on coal-fired power generation; and it never made … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Tax
Tagged carbontax, china, climatechange, eu, japan, qld, queensland, us
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Govt Actuary finds insurers struggling to understand catastrophe risk
North Queensland apartment owners will have to put up with the massive insurance premium increases (e.g. more than 300%) they have experienced in recent years after an Australian Government Actuary report concluded the premium increases most likely reflected the market … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Climate change, Cyclones, North Queensland
Tagged catastropherisk, cycloneyasi, insurance, northqueensland, premiums
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Garnaut to deliver this year’s Colin Clark lecture
In my first public service job, on my way to my desk on the sixth floor of the Neville Bonner Building in Brisbane I’d walk past a photo portrait of Colin Clark, a former head of the Queensland Employment, Training … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change
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Adverse impacts of carbon tax becoming apparent
While a carbon tax would make sense as part of a worldwide effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions – which is clearly a global priority given the mounting evidence on climate change – it makes no sense as a unilateral … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change
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Should Governments promote the development of tropical cities such as Townsville?
I am both proud and somewhat bewildered to read that Townsville, where I was born and spent my first fifteen years, is approaching a population of 200,000 people, as reported in the Townsville Bulletin this morning (Welcome to Townsville: population … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Townsville
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