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Blog posts May 2018

Queensland Small Business Week 2018: QEAS Business Plan Template

I have previously penned why we need to celebrate the importance of Queensland Small Businesses and Monday 28 May 2018 marks the start of Queensland's Small Business Week 2018.  To mark this occasion QEAS has prepared a resource to assist small businesses to be able to plan better.

Small b…

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Trends in Queensland’s Tax, Royalties and GOC Dividends Fact Sheet

With the State Budget just around the corner I wanted to pen a quick analysis of trends in state taxation receipts and other own source revenue including royalties and GOC dividends.

Based on the analysis of eighteen Queensland State Budgets between 2000-01 and 2017-18 key observations includ…

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Jobs and key infrastructure projects falling by the wayside

Much of the work QEAS does is behind the scenes for individual clients. It is great to see some this work underpin recent advocacy by Master Builders Queensland in the public domain.  Their media release is below together with links to the QEAS research.

HOSPITALS, schools and thousands of j…

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If Queensland wants its long-term wages growth back we need an unemployment rate of 5.0%

The ABS today confirmed that wages growth in Queensland remains stubbornly and well short of the long-term average of 3.3 per cent. Queensland’s Wage Price Index grew by 2.2 per cent over the past twelve months and compares to a national rate of 2.1 per cent.

The factors that are causing …

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Federal Budget 2018-19: Queensland Update

For a full analysis of the Federal Budget 2018-19 and what it means for Queensland please click here

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One in three recommendations either partly or wholly rejected by the State Gov for the Manufacturing Sector

Yesterday (1st May 2018) the State Government responded to a series of recommendations made by the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) on how to secure the future of the State’s manufacturing sector. Out of 17 very good recommendations made by the QPC the State Government accepted in whole …

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