Publications

TJ Ryan Foundation Executive Director Roger Scott reports on the UK newspapers, finding  uncanny similarities between Queensland and the UK’s political spin and drive to the

In November 2013, Laura Eadie argued, on the Centre for Policy Development website, that surplus port capacity puts Queensland at competitive disadvantage in the near-term, and

Queensland offers inducements to coal miners ‘Queensland taxpayers will help fund a rail line from Abbot Point port to what will be Australia’s largest coal mine,

‘Tax avoidance by multinational enterprises is not new. But the current level of political will and public outcry on the issue is uncommon in the history

Stephen Koukoulas writes in The Guardian (7.11.14) about the impact of rising joblessness and falling iron ore prices on the economy. ‘The economy appears to be

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 egg. Yet

Anthropologist Sally Babiddge writes in The Conversation (30.10.14) that miners do much more than extract minerals and make profits. ‘The Australian government recently repealed the mining

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

Charles Livingstone writes in The Conversation (20.10.14) that the Queensland government’s changes to its poker machine legislation has removed ‘two natural brakes on dangerous behaviour’. Queensland

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 confirms that the

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 missing participation of citizens

Samuel Alexander writes in The Conversation (2.10.14): ‘Like a snake eating its own tail, our growth-oriented civilisation suffers from the delusion that there are no environmental