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- Line of 200 people for Gaythorne open house evidence of relative lack of suitable properties in Brisbane - partly due to restrictive zoning policies
- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
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- Thoughts after first full day of Brisbane lockdown
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- How did the Qld government accumulate so much debt?
- Did the financial crisis lead to an increase in Queensland's crime rate?
- Qld Budget doesn’t tell the full story on government's borrowing costs
- Qld CHO emergency powers extension bill submission
- Tradies know what it means to live in the 200km City
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Tag Archives: qldgovt
Qantas call for state gov’t incentives highlights the prisoners’ dilemma of interstate bidding wars
Queensland Government agencies such as Treasury and State Development will be busy developing an incentive package, no doubt containing payroll tax concessions and possibly a grant, to attract Qantas’s HQ. As the Australian reported yesterday: Qantas is asking state governments … Continue reading
Posted in Industry policy
Tagged industrypolicy, payrolltax, prisonersdilemma, productivitycommission, qantas, qca, qld, qldgovt
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Fantastic December quarter result for Qld economy
The December quarter National Accounts showed a strong rebound for the Australian economy, with economic growth at 1.1 percent for the quarter, while State Final Demand for Queensland grew at 0.9 percent over the quarter according to the ABS. (Note … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged abs, australianeconomy, gdp, nationalaccounts, qldeconomy, qldgovt
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No tears for BaT tunnel – it most likely didn’t stack up
Whichever party forms government in Queensland, the Bus and Train (BaT) tunnel project is no more, as reported by the Brisbane Times (BaT tunnel plans scrapped). I was always skeptical about the economic case for the project, and was very … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Transport
Tagged battunnel, brisbane, crossriverrail, qld, qldgovt, queensland
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Top ten contractors supplying to Qld Government
Business people and professionals across Queensland will be interested in data recently uploaded to the Queensland Government’s http://www.data.qld.gov.au website, particularly because it will allow them to check how much Government work their competitors have obtained (Queensland contract disclosure—$10,000 and above). For … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Queensland Government
Tagged contractors, contracts, data, opendata, qld, qldgovt, queensland
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Qld Govt follows through on open data policy – now I know where all the E-Type Jaguars prowl
A tweet by Possum Comitatus yesterday alerted me to the newly released data on car registrations in Queensland released under the Queensland Government’s new open data policy. This is an extensive database, including nearly every bit of relevant registration data … Continue reading
