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Tag Archives: costbenefitanalysis
Queensland Parliament Question Time featuring my Cross River Rail post
Thanks to local citizen journalist David Marler, @Qldaah, for his tweet yesterday afternoon which alerted me to the Question Time debate on Cross River Rail in the Queensland Parliament, in which my post from yesterday morning was quoted a few … Continue reading
Posted in Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged buildingqueensland, businesscase, cba, costbenefitanalysis, crossriverrail, crr, etcs, qld, queensland, xrr
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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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Transparency essential in Building Qld cost-benefit studies of infrastructure projects
Last Thursday morning I attended an excellent breakfast seminar on infrastructure organised by the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FACCI) and hosted by Holding Redlich Lawyers in their Queen St, Brisbane CBD offices. The seminar featured highly informative and … Continue reading
Is banning plastic bags the best option to tackle litter and reduce waste?
Guest post by Rod Bogaards It looks like a push is on to ban single-use plastic bags nationally according to the Courier-Mail. A ban has already been implemented in some of the smaller states and territories but not elsewhere. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, cba, costbenefitanalysis, environment, ephc, pc, plasticbags, productivitycommission
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More transparency, but KSD upgrade still looks like a dud
Jim Binney, Principal of Mainstream Economics and Policy, has undertaken further analysis of the proposed Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade, following up his guest post from yesterday, and I am very happy to publish his critique of the business case below. … Continue reading
Posted in Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged bcc, brisbane, cba, congestion, costbenefitanalysis, kingsfordsmithdrive, ksd, ksdupgrade, roadcrashes, sensitivityanalysis, traveltime
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Courier-Mail’s Paul Syvret on my “coldly commercial prism”
Thanks to the Courier-Mail’s Paul Syvret for quoting my last post in his Saturday opinion piece on the proposed new 1,500 seat theatre for Brisbane (see Opinion: New inner-city theatre would be a boost for Brisbane, which may be behind … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged arts, brisbane, businesscase, cba, cge, costbenefitanalysis, couriermail, culture, inputoutput, iomodel, mulitpliers, qld, qpac, queensland, theatre
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Ethanol mandate to be introduced despite lack of evidence on net benefits to Qld
Earlier this week, the Queensland Government introduced into Parliament a bill for a 2 per cent ethanol mandate (see this Brisbane Times report). This measure appears designed to placate Katter’s Australian Party, which is looking out for cane growers who … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Retail trade
Tagged cba, costbenefitanalysis, e10, ethanol, fuel, petrol, qld, queensland, racq
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