Category Archives: Climate change

Climate change with Nicki Hutley from Deloitte Access Economics – my latest podcast episode

Posted on March 5, 2020 by

In an Australian ABC News story in early February, Deloitte Access Economics Partner Nicki Hutley referred to the potential cost of climate change as “astronomical”. In my latest podcast episode,  I chat with Nicki about the cost of action compared with the cost … Continue reading →

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Australia’s (and Qld’s) climate change policy predicament

Posted on January 14, 2020 by

Yesterday, the Financial Times published a blistering op-ed by its Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator Gideon Rachman: Australia is no longer the lucky country (NB pay-walled). It is one of the best summaries of Australia’s current predicament over climate change I’ve … Continue reading →

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Big economic issues for the 2020s

Posted on January 2, 2020 by

In my latest Economics Explained episode Big economic issues for the 2020s, I discuss the major economic issues I’ve been thinking about lately: the secular stagnation hypothesis, digital disruption and surveillance capitalism, and climate change. Use these timestamps to jump … Continue reading →

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Podcast highlights – Quiggin on climate change, Gruen on digital public goods, and others

Posted on December 27, 2019 by

My latest Economics Explained episode presents highlights from the podcast in 2019, including UQ’s John Quiggin on climate change, Lateral Economics’s Nicholas Gruen on digital public goods, and RMIT’s Leonora Risse (currently a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School) on … Continue reading →

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Does Qld need a few large firefighting planes? Guest post by Stephen Thornton

Posted on September 14, 2019 by

Thanks to my good friend and colleague Dr Stephen Thornton for his latest guest post. Views expressed are Stephen’s and should not necessarily be attributed to me. GT Does Queensland need a few large firefighting planes? The terrible bushfires in … Continue reading →

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QEW week that was video – coal, negative gearing & the economic outlook

Posted on February 23, 2019 by

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 →

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Top 10 posts from the first 1,000

Posted on October 28, 2014 by

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 →

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Carbon tax repeal good news for Qld economy

Posted on July 14, 2014 by

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 →

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Govt Actuary finds insurers struggling to understand catastrophe risk

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

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 →

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Garnaut to deliver this year’s Colin Clark lecture

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

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 →

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