Menu

Q E A S

Queensland Economic Advocacy Solutions

header photo

Blog posts February 2019

The BNE 2025 projects represent a renaissance opportunity for Brisbane

Over the next five years Brisbane will experience a once in a generation level of investment in new major projects on a scale that no-one will have seen before not even for Expo 88.

Between now and 2025, our State’s capital city is being transformed by major construction projects worth approx…

Read more

Latest Queensland Wages Growth

Wages growth for Queensland's private sector is now slowly starting to ramp up. Latest data by the ABS reveals:

  • Queensland wages grew by 2.3% across 2018 and compares to the decade average rate of 2.8%. National wages growth across 2018 was also of 2.3%;
  • This compares to latest inflation num…

Read more

Queensland Business Numbers Continue to Rise

The ABS have released their Counts of Queensland Businesses including entries and exits and the story in the main is a positive one for Queensland in 2017-18. 

Key points include:

  • Queensland's business population continues to increase. There are now 448,725 businesses operating in Queensla…

Read more

Queensland Labor Market Summary - January 2019

Key points from the Australian Bureau of Statistic's labour market numbers for Queensland in January 2019 include:

  • Queensland's unemployment rate remains unchanged at 6.1% in trend terms and is down from 6.1% to 6.0% seasonally adjusted.
  • Nationally the unemployment rate remains unchanged a…

Read more

Latest Reserve Bank of Australia economic forecasts - February 2019

The Reserve Bank of Australia have released their latest Statement of Monetary Policy which contains forecasts for the Australian Economy over the next several years.  This Statement received widespread media coverage - whilst the RBA's monetary policy stance remains neutral, the next adjustment…

Read more

Imprisonment for mistakes in payrolls is a step too far

“Employers found to be deliberately or recklessly engaging in wage theft could find themselves in jail, after the Palaszczuk Government accepted in principle making wage theft a criminal offence following a Parliamentary Inquiry.”

Source: Queensland Government Media Release

This is one…

Read more

Can the three tiers of Government finally work together: the SEQ City Deal

Residents of SEQ are always banging on about how the different tiers of government can never work together to fix the things that desperately need fixing. Well that may well change with the Coalition Government seriously considering supporting the SEQ City Deals proposition.

City Deals are long-…

Read more

Does Queensland have a debt problem?

At the end of 2018 when the Mid-Year Fiscal and Economic Review (MYFER) was released there was considerable debate over whether Queensland has a debt problem.  So to kick off 2019 I thought QEAS might have a look at this important issue. It is an important issue because if we leave debt to spiral …

Read more

QEAS response to the Financial Services Royal Commission

A brief summary for business:

According to Commissioner Hayne the chief protection for small business borrowers has for some time been, and remains, the Banking Code.  Among other things, the Banking Code provides that, if a lender is considering providing a borrower ‘with a new loan, or an incre…

Read more

9 blog posts