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- Nervous times for construction industry with downswing underway
- On mega mine, Qld Government should avoid taking equity risk for just a return on debt
- Adani no go would be bitter blow to Townsville
- Trouble in Qld construction industry & worse may be to come
- Pros and cons of a $300M royalties holiday for the Adani mega mine
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Cross River Rail Budget snub unsurprising given weak business case – will QIC now step in?
- Why the Adani mega mine is welcome news in Townsville
- Were 80% of new Qld jobs in 2015-16 public service jobs?
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Tag Archives: cciq
Qld full-time jobs growth since election back in positive territory
In April, full-time employment in Queensland continued to recover and is now back above the level that prevailed at the time of the last State election in January 2015, in terms of the trend data that Queensland Treasury prefers to … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, cciq, construction, election, jobs, labourforce, newman, palaszczuk, qld, qldtreasury, queensland
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Strong growth in plant & equipment capex is good news for Qld economy
Last Friday, in his opening statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, RBA Governor Phil Lowe observed: “Nationally, measures of business conditions have picked up noticeably recently. For some time we have been waiting for a lift … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, businessinvestment, capex, cciq, couriermail, mining, qld, qldeconomy, qldtreasury, queensland, rba, resources
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Weekly highlights: BDO Economic & Political Update and ESA Qld-Nine Squared CBA seminar
It was a fantastic week to be an economist in Brisbane, with two excellent events, the BDO Economic & Political Update on Tuesday morning at BCEC and the ESA Qld-Nine Squared seminar on Cost-benefit analysis in contemporary project evaluation at … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Uncategorized
Tagged bdo, budget, cba, cciq, costbenefitanalysis, debt, qld, queensland
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Targeting infrastructure spending as a % of GSP won’t work – Guest post by Joe Branigan
Again, I am delighted to publish a guest post from my good friend and former Treasury colleague Joe Branigan. The usual disclaimer applies, that the views expressed in this article are Joe’s and should not necessarily be attributed to me. … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Uncategorized
Tagged cciq, gsp, infrastructure, ipa, productivity, qld, queensland
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Go Qld campaign moves on to attack payroll tax and penalty rates
The Courier-Mail’s terrific “Go Queensland” campaign has today moved on to the issues of payroll tax and penalty rates, both of which I covered in my paper for the Jobs Growth Summit last week (see related post). I am quoted … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Tax, Uncategorized
Tagged cciq, jobs, payrolltax, penaltyrates, qld, queensland
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Tuesday’s Jobs Growth Summit a great opportunity to push for better economic policies
On Tuesday, I will be attending the Queensland Jobs Growth Summit at Parliament House, which is being hosted by UQ’s School of Economics (my occasional employer) and the Australia Institute. My business Adept Economics is one of several Summit sponsors. … Continue reading
Posted in IR, Labour market, Macroeconomy, Queensland Government, Uncategorized
Tagged australiainstitute, brisbane, cciq, employment, jobs, mining, qld, queensland, services, tai, tourism, townsville, tradinghours, uber, uq
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Queensland businesses remain pessimistic on average
Queensland businesses remain a relatively pessimistic bunch, based on the latest data from the Westpac-CCIQ Pulse Survey, which I have previously argued is the most reliable data on business confidence in Queensland (see my post from June). CCIQ’s media release … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged businessconfidence, cciq, pulse, qld, queensland, turnbull, westpac
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