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At the Brisbane Polo Club next Tuesday evening (5 October), the Brisbane Institute will host a forum on whether the Queensland Parliament should re-establish an upper house – i.e., the Legislative Council which was abolished in 1921 by a suicide … Continue reading →

Obesity is a serious health problem for individuals and a serious cost to public health budgets and the economy through lost workforce participation and productivity  – Access Economics estimated its total cost to the Australian community at nearly $4 billion … Continue reading →

One out of every 14 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of adult age living in Queensland is a member of the stolen generation, according to a summary booklet of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) … Continue reading →

mX (Brisbane’s free afternoon newspaper) today ran with a typical attention grabbing front page headline “Peak fare shock: Kick concession cards, says forum”: Concession card-carrying commuters should be relegated to off-peak services only, a peak transport body says.  A report … Continue reading →

The Sunshine Coast Council appears to understand the reality of South East Queensland’s population growth and pressures on the environment, with the Deputy Mayor Tim Dwyer supporting high density living, as reported in the Sunshine Coast Daily: ROADS will be … Continue reading →

Queensland Government research (Skills for Jobs and Growth 2010) identifies that some skill shortages are genuinely due to a lack of skilled workers (e.g., pilots, farm managers) but others are simply due to employers not paying high enough wages to … Continue reading →

A Treasury paper released on Friday confirms the expectation of economists that Commonwealth Government debt won’t push up interest rates, and that US debt is a much bigger influence. This is not surprising, given the nature of global capital markets. … Continue reading →

While Queensland university students once marched through Brisbane streets chanting “Queensland Police State”, Queensland is definitely a police state no longer, and, if any state deserves that tag, it’s NSW. Since 2007, Queensland prisons have housed, each day on average, … Continue reading →

Oprah Winfrey will find it tough to sell Australia as a holiday destination to her audience if the Australian dollar stays near recent record highs against the US dollar: Australian dollar up late, reaches two year high against US dollar … Continue reading →

In a positive development, given the risks to our waterways from rusting, abandoned shopping trolleys, a sign that popped up at Toowong Village today announces that anyone taking a trolley away from the shopping centre would be subject to a … Continue reading →