Category Archives: Climate change

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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Adverse impacts of carbon tax becoming apparent

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

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 →

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Should Governments promote the development of tropical cities such as Townsville?

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

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 | 3 Comments