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- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Individual public servants blamed while politicisation of Qld public service goes unaddressed
- True Qld unemployment rate around 12%
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Tag Archives: goldcoast
Economic impact of COVID-19 & policy responses webinar for QUT Centre for Data Science
The video recording of a webinar on the economic impact of COVID-19 I participated in last Friday is now available. The other panellists were Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute, Griffith Professor Tony Makin, and QUT Professor Pascalis Raimondos. My … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Gold Coast, Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, cairns, coronavirus, covid-19, goldcoast, grattaninstitute, griffith, hospitality, portdouglas, qld, queensland, qut, tourism, unitedstates
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Chat with CCIQ’s Jack Baxter on collapse in business conditions & confidence
I spoke with CCIQ Economic and Policy Advisor Jack Baxter earlier today regarding the corona-crisis-induced collapse in business conditions and confidence reported in the March quarter Suncorp-CCIQ Pulse Survey report. Business conditions and confidence are at their worst levels in … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, brisbane, cairns, cciq, coronavirus, covid-19, goldcoast, hospitality, landtax, manufacturing, payrolltax, pulse, qld, qldeconomy, queensland, stampduty, suncorp, tourism
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State and regional unemployment rates in this time of COVID-19 with Pete Faulkner
Mission Beach-based economist Pete Faulkner from Conus Consulting has been in the news recently with his estimates of the massive adverse impacts that measures to combat coronavirus are having on Queensland’s regional economies (e.g. see the InQueensland report Jobless numbers … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Gold Coast, Labour market, Macroeconomy, North Queensland, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, cairns, conus, coronavirus, covid-19, gdp, goldcoast, jobkeeper, missionbeach, qld, queensland, townsville, unemploymentrate
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COVID-19 rescue package chat with CCIQ Chief Economist Marcus Smith
In both its scale and scope, the COVID-19 rescue package announced by the Prime Minister and Treasurer this morning is stunning. I spoke with CCIQ Chief Economist Marcus Smith earlier this afternoon regarding what he thinks about the package, and … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged aofm, australia, cairns, cciq, coronavirus, covid-19, debt, goa, goldcoast, mackay, newstart, payrolltax, qld, qldgovernment, queensland, rescuepackage, stimulus, townsville, unemployment
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Best coronavirus response advice offered by Austan Goolsbee & Dr Norman Swan
The best economic advice I’ve heard during the coronavirus threat is that offered by Austan Goolsbee, former Council of Economic Advisers Chair under President Obama. In a recent NPR Planet Money podcast Medicine for the Economy, which is compulsory listening, … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged cairns, coronavirus, gdp, goldcoast, schools
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Coronavirus and the Qld economy
Despite all the bad news on coronavirus, the RBA Board, which left the cash rate unchanged yesterday, and financial markets, which are currently rallying, seem pretty relaxed about the potential economic impacts of the virus. While equity prices are lower … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged cairns, china, coal, coronavirus, goldcoast, qld, queensland, tourism
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Money on the Screen – film industry episode of Economics Explained podcast
The latest episode of my Economics Explained podcast, Money on the Screen, explores the economics of the film industry. What affects the return on investment in films? Should governments subsidise film productions as they do in Australia? In the episode, … Continue reading
Posted in Gold Coast, Queensland Government, Uncategorized
Tagged disney, economicsexplained, film, filmindustry, goldcoast, hollywood, movies, roi, subsidies
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Destination Gold Coast CEO right the GC’s been missing out
I’m usually sceptical of pleas from regional leaders for greater government investment in their regions, but I think the Destination Gold Coast CEO has a legitimate grievance. The Gold Coast Bulletin reports: THE Gold Coast’s tourism boss has blasted the … Continue reading
Posted in Gold Coast, Uncategorized
Tagged capex, destinationgc, gc, goldcoast, m1, qld, qldgovernment
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Concentration of Qld population in SEQ expected to increase with its higher rates of net migration
Regarding my previous post noting SEQ’s dominance in population terms, regular QEW reader Mike Willis commented perceptively: Gene, it seems the concentration will be reinforced, if the most recent Qld government statistician’s report is any guide. State population growth is … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Cairns, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, brisbane, cairns, cassowarycoast, census, douglas, goldcoast, lga, migration, population, qld, queensland, seq, whitsunday
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Qld Councils & the 80/20 rule – 81% of Queenslanders live in just 12 out of 78 LGAs
In the final week of 2018, the Brisbane Times published an article The capital cities that ate Australia, which opened: They are the capital cities eating up the rest of Australia. Already home to more than two-thirds of the nation’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Population, Uncategorized
Tagged 200kmcity, 8020rule, abs, bcc, brisbane, brisbanetimes, councils, goldcoast, lgas, paretoprinciple, qld, queensland, seq
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