-
Recent Posts
- Qld retail inquiry – industry demands greater consumer choice and removal of inconsistencies
- Livestream on US inflation, Aussie jobs data, and Qld’s low vax rate
- Good sign the Great COVID Panic will end in Qld soon
- COP26 chat with Grattan’s Tony Wood – climate change, renewables, nuclear, and coal
- Hospital funding fight the latest illustration of the big problem with vertical fiscal imbalance in our federation
Top Posts & Pages
- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
- Qld retail inquiry - industry demands greater consumer choice and removal of inconsistencies
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Qld population growth and interstate migration gains in perspective
- Lockdown CBA podcast discussion with Prof. Douglas Allen of Simon Fraser University
- Bulk of coal mining jobs in Central Qld, but Brisbane has 2-3K
- Is Townsville or Cairns the capital of North Qld?
- Cross River Rail cost blowout means project doesn’t stack up
- Coles backs Ipswich - good investment given strong population growth
- Upcoming Major Projects Forum in Rockhampton on 28 October 2021
Archives
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
Categories
- Agriculture
- Arts
- Basin Plan
- Brisbane
- Budget
- Cairns
- China
- Climate change
- Competition policy
- Crime
- Cyclones
- Education
- Energy
- Environment
- Exports
- Floods
- Gladstone
- Gold Coast
- Health
- Housing
- India
- Industry policy
- Infrastructure
- Ipswich
- IR
- Labour market
- Mackay
- Macroeconomy
- Media
- Migration
- Mining
- nfps
- North Queensland
- Population
- Productivity
- queensland
- Queensland Government
- Queensland Rail
- qut
- Retail trade
- Rockhampton
- Social policy
- Tax
- Toowoomba
- Tourism
- Townsville
- Trade
- Transport
- Uncategorized
- VET
- Water
- Wide Bay-Burnett
Blogroll
Tag Archives: manufacturing
Thoughts on the border decision and QPC’s productivity reform livestream
First, better late than never I suppose, so I should be thankful the Queensland Government, on 1 December, will finally open up the state to Sydneysiders and let us travel to Sydney without having to endure hotel quarantine when we … Continue reading
Posted in IR, Macroeconomy, Productivity
Tagged australia, coronavirus, covid-19, manufacturing, mutualrecognition, nsw, nz, occupationallicencing, productivitycommission, qld, queensland, sydney, workplacerelations
Leave a comment
Picking winners – industry policy podcast chat with Craig Lawrence
With the Queensland Government willing to invest $200 million in Virgin Australia to keep its HQ in Brisbane, I thought it would be timely to record a podcast interview on investment attraction and industry policy more broadly. On Tuesday, I … Continue reading
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
Leave a comment
My comments in Saturday’s Courier-Mail on payroll tax concessions—e.g. for BrewDog & Disney
With the possible exception of President Trump, the most interesting American politician at the moment is the millennial, freshman member of the House from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). She is one of the main players is what The Economist … Continue reading
Posted in Industry policy, Uncategorized
Tagged amazon, aoc, biddingwar, brewdog, couriermail, filmindustry, industryassistance, industrypolicy, manufacturing, payrolltax, qca
4 Comments
Comments in Courier-Mail on Qld regional economies and structural change
Today, the Courier-Mail is re-launching its GoQld campaign, this time with a focus on regional economies. It has rightly identified the large divergence in employment growth between SEQ and the rest of Queensland, and it is reporting a loss of … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Mining, North Queensland, Townsville, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, agriculture, employment, goldcoast, jobs, manufacturing, mining, qld, queensland, structuralchange, toowoomba, townsville
3 Comments
ABS data confirm Qld economy under-performed in 2015-16
The annual gross state product (GSP) data the ABS published on Friday revealed Queensland’s lacklustre economic growth of 2% in 2015-16 (compared with 2.8% nationally) was heavily influenced by the transition at the end of the mining boom. The data … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged abs, construction, gsp, lng, manufacturing, mining, queensland
6 Comments
FIFO & DIDO workers in Qld gas fields nearly doubled in 2013
The new data from Queensland Treasury on non-resident – i.e. fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) or drive-in, drive-out (DIDO) – workers in the Surat Basin illustrate the boom we’re seeing in the gas-field communities out west of Toowoomba on the Darling Downs, … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Mining
Tagged australia, capex, chinchilla, dido, fifo, gasfields, lng, manufacturing, miles, qld, queensland, roma, suratbasin
3 Comments
Unemployment in outer Brisbane
Katherine Feeney has a great article on the Brisbane Times website this morning: Unemployment hitting Brisbane’s outer suburbs hardest. It contains some commentary from me on Brisbane’s labour market that I gave to Katherine when she interviewed me yesterday, in response … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Labour market
Tagged abs, brisbane, deewr, manufacturing, qldtreasury, salm, unemployment, unemploymentrate
2 Comments
Qld struck by Dutch Disease – manufacturing employment has plunged in last few years
The so-called Dutch Disease of a booming resources sector and a contracting manufacturing sector has been very evident in Queensland over the last few years, as seen in the chart below based on the latest vintage of ABS quarterly labour … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Mining
Tagged dutchdisease, employment, manufacturing, mining, queensland, resourcessector
Leave a comment
