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- UQ’s brilliant Critical Thinking Project explored in my latest podcast episode
- Is Townsville or Cairns the capital of North Qld?
- Fake privatisation of Titles Registry helping Qld Gov’t pretend it has debt management plan
- Qld population growth and interstate migration gains in perspective
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- ACCC right to call for Qld Gov’t to cut stamp duty on home insurance - $200 in stamp duty on each NQ home insurance policy on average
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Tag Archives: jobs
Qld Economic Outlook for 2022
Prior to the omicron outbreak, I was very confident about the Queensland economic outlook for 2022. I’m still reasonably confident that the state economy will perform well over 2022, but nothing is certain of course. There’s been a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Mining
Tagged abs, australia, budget, coal, covid-19, jobs, qld, queensland, unemployment
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Sunny Coast booming | Qld must remain open for business petition
Relative to pre-COVID levels, while all Queensland regions have much higher job vacancies, it is the Sunshine Coast that is well in the lead, according to the National Skills Commission’s internet vacancies data for November 2021, published yesterday (see chart … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy
Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, jobs, jobvacancies, maroochydore, qld, queensland, sunshinecoast, vacancies
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Optimism at home, big inflation concerns abroad – catch up with my livestream at 11.30am AEST
While Australian economic policy makers are forecasting a growing economy with moderate inflation, policy makers elsewhere are concerned about accelerating inflation. In the federal budget update released yesterday, the Treasury has forecast a growing economy with inflation within the RBA’s … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, bankofengland, bankrate, inflation, jobs, minimumwage, queensland, turkey, uk, usa, usfed
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Great Resignation chat with Anthony Bersz and Louise Gibson, Remedy Resourcing
The Great Resignation is the label given to the record numbers of people leaving jobs in the US and the UK. For a variety of reasons, many people have re-evaluated their lives and careers during the pandemic. People have quit … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market
Tagged covid-19, economics, employment, greatresignation, jobs, pandemic, recruitment, wfh, work, workingfromhome
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PM calls jobs boom, RBA warns of crypto crash, and UK inflation highest in 10 years – upcoming livestream
As I’ve been covering on QEW and will discuss on today’s livestream (link above), there’s a lot of exuberance and optimism about the great Aussie reopening, and PM Scott Morrison has forecast a “jobs boom” based on healthy job vacancies … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, bitcoin, covid-19, cpi, crypto, immigration, inflation, jobs, rba, uk, vacancies
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Tourism operators need Qld Gov’t to continue reopening and not to panic as COVID comes in
There is a lot of excitement about the reopening of Queensland, which can’t come quickly enough, but at least it is actually happening, so long as the Queensland Government holds its nerve and doesn’t reimpose restrictions once COVID cases start … Continue reading
Posted in Tourism
Tagged abs, coronavirus, covid-19, employment, farnorth, goldcoast, jobs, labourforce, qld, tourism, tra
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Job vacancies by Qld region
In my last Friday livestream, I mentioned surging job vacancies across Queensland (and in many parts of the rest of Australia, too). Vacancies are at record levels in four out of seven Queensland regions (see the chart below using National … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market
Tagged borderrestrictions, cq, fnq, jobs, outback, qld, queensland
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Livestream on US inflation, Aussie jobs data, and Qld’s low vax rate
Yesterday afternoon I did my first livestream, covering: the growing concern internationally about accelerating inflation, prompted by the latest US CPI figures; the September ABS Labour Force data revealing big drops in hours worked and workforce participation in the locked-down … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, australia, coronavirus, covid-19, cpi, inflation, jobs, queensland, tourism, unemployment, vaccines
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Good sign the Great COVID Panic will end in Qld soon
A few weeks ago I observed that it took the NRL Grand Final for the Queensland Government to adopt a more rational approach to the pandemic, and now, thankfully, there are further signs of rationality from the Government, with the … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Macroeconomy
Tagged australia, budget, coronavirus, covid-19, jobs, lockdowns, money, qld, queensland, tourism, unemployment
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Upcoming Major Projects Forum in Rockhampton on 28 October 2021
I’m thrilled that I’ve been invited to return to present at Capricorn Enterprise’s Major Projects Forum in Rockhampton on Thursday 28 October. Here’s the blurb: The Capricorn Enterprise Major Projects Forum is the premier project forum in the region, covering … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy
Tagged abs, australia, capricornenterprise, coronavirus, covid-19, hydrogen, jobs, majorprojectsforum, qld, queensland, rockhampton
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Queensland Economy Watch 