This section includes papers on the management of Queensland's economy.
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Joe Hockey and rising inequality Professor James Morley writes in The Conversation (4.11.14): 'Joe Hockey may try and advocate that higher taxes kill the goose that lays the golden... More » |
Anthropologist Sally Babiddge writes in The Conversation (30.10.14) that miners do much more than extract minerals and make profits. 'The Australia... More » |
The Mouse that Roars - Coal in the Queensland Economy Paper (October 2014) on the coal industry in Queensland by Roderick Campbell, Research Fellow with The Australia Institute: '99 per c... More » |
Effective gambling regulation is not just 'red tape' Charles Livingstone writes in The Conversation (20.10.14) that the Queensland government's changes to its poker machine legislation has removed 'tw... More » |
Immense divide : budget impact Coalition and Labor seats Tom Allard reports in The Brisbane Times (10.10.14) on the findings of a study by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling that c... More » |
Bringing the free market down to earth is a moral question Jean-Paul Gagnon and Mark Chou write in The Conversation (1.10.14): 'The lack of regulation, the weak enforcement of existing regulations and the m... More » |
Samuel Alexander writes in The Conversation (2.10.14): 'Like a snake eating its own tail, our growth-oriented civilisation suffers from the delusio... More » |
German climate advisor scathing on Australia's coal policy Lisa Cox reports in The Brisbane Times (2.10.14) that the German Chancellor's advisor on climate policy has said that continued coal use was not on... More » |
The cost of homelessness: an Australian national study This report by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (16.12.13) explores the effect homelessness programs have on the potential to yi... More » |
'Budget emergency' denied by 63 Australian economists who argue that 'the government's chief aim shouldn't be to generate a surplus but to generate... More » |
Queensland Western Downs: survey on coal seam gas CSIRO scientists report the outcomes of a survey of residents in Queensland's Western Downs region on attitudes to coal seam gas. More » |
Conus Business Consultancy Services questions government's tourism statistics LNP Tourism minister's statistics queried by Conus Business Consultancy Services: 'We can only conclude that the LNP are, once again, using data wh... More » |
Queensland tourism - growth stagnating Cameron Atfield writes in The Brisbane Times (15.9.14) that Queensland's tourism peak body has warned that tourism in the State is stagnating, with... More » |
The local costs of Cairns' new casino Francis Markham and Martin Young write in The Conversation (5.9.14) that 'while Aquis has produced a 4000-page environmental and social impact stat... More » |
Social Inequality: is the elephant in the room strangling us all? The notion of a fair go and the concept of social mobility are both central to the Australian psyche and culture. Aleesandro Demaio writes in The C... More » |
Sale of the century - the great privatisation scam James Meek (The Guardian, 27.8.14) discusses the inequities that have resulted from the UK's privatised public services. 'A tax is generally ... More » |
Consigning future generations to social immobility? In The Guardian (22.8.14) Jim Chalmers argues that judged on their decisions to date, 'we now have a government that sees inequality as an objectiv... More » |
Report for Per Capita by Emily Millane. Millane argues that Australia's retirement income system is becoming unsustainable. Proposals currently in ... More » |
Why treasurers should go back to economics school Professor Geoff Harcourt argues in The Conversation (19.8.14) that: 'Treasurer Speak' in recent decades reflects serious conceptual misunders... More » |
Richard Dennis predicts that the biggest blow for the Hockey budget is yet to come On 12 August 2014 Richard Dennis of the AustraliaInstitute predicts further problems in the Senate over Hockey's budget, particularly because its p... More » |
National Party voters would be hardest hit by GP 'co-payment' Richard Dennis and Matt Grudnoff of the AustraliaInstitute argue that National Party constituents will be amongst the hardest hit if the federal go... More » |
We must not just wave goodbye to our voluntary sector In The Conversation (14 August 2014) Professor Paul Smith argues that recent reports (Hilmer and Shergold) have been informed by by commissions of ... More » |
Russian sanctions least of agriculture sector's problems Mark McGovern writes in The Conversation (13 August 14): 'Measures of both competitiveness and productivity can increase when an industry is in dec... More » |
The Federal budget, fairness and class warfare In Inside Story (8.8.14) Peter Whiteford analyses the impact of the 2014 Federal budget. He discusses its underlying values, the public's res... More » |
Article about US economist Joseph Stiglitz's challenge for Labor policymakers to become more assertive about equality and more articulate about mor... More » |