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Queensland biomedical and life sciences 10 year roadmap: discussion paper
No full textAs part of the A$405 million Accelerating Advance Queensland initiative, the Queensland Government is creating an environment to foster emerging and priority sectors with global growth potential. The biomedical and life sciences sector is one of the priority sectors that will play an important role in diversifying Queensland’s economy and ensuring Queensland workers have access to the new jobs of the future
State planning policy: draft for consultation
No full textThe Queensland Government is reviewing how the state government expresses its interests in plan making and development assessment.
The State Planning Policy is the primary state planning instrument in Queensland\u27s planning system. It provides a clear and comprehensive expression of the policies needed to ensure that planning in Queensland is outcomes focussed, efficient, and accountable.
Across Queensland, we are responding to the challenges and opportunities of growth through smart planning. Key to this is emphasising the importance of facilitating affordable living and housing outcomes through the planning system. We are serious about putting sustainability and climate change on the planning agenda, while promoting great urban design outcomes for our built environment. Well-designed places and spaces increasingly underpin the economic and social success of our communities. That is why we are ensuring that our places are designed to reflect the way that people interact with their communities and not the other way around. We recognise the importance of holistically integrating land use and infrastructure planning in delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for Queensland. We have therefore included this as a new state interest for planning and development.
The State Planning Policy now identifies 17 state interests in land use planning and development categorised into five themes relating to:
liveable communities and housing
economic growth
environment and heritage
safety and resilience to hazards
infrastructure.
By clearly expressing performance outcomes for each state interest, the State Planning Policy promotes transparent and accountable decision making and confidence in the planning system. Our performance-based planning system encourages and responds to change by allowing for innovation and flexibility in plan making. At its core, this new approach to planning is about being responsive to changing community needs and creating great places for Queenslanders to live, work and raise their families
Advancing our cities and regions strategy
Full text linkThe Advancing our cities and regions strategy is an innovative approach to renewing and repurposing surplus and underutilised state property to deliver better community outcomes, create jobs and drive economic growth. Property Queensland within the Department of State Development is working with government land-owning agencies to identify sites that represent property opportunities that will deliver on government priorities, and generate economic development and community outcomes.
To help achieve this strategy, eight economic and community zones have been identified where Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) will lead the delivery of a range of projects, many of which will be iconic developments to transform precincts and catalyse economic growth and diversification in our cities and regions.  
Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments
Full text linkThis Productivity Commission research report, released on 16 May 2011, has identified wide-ranging differences in the ways all levels of government plan and zone land uses and assess development proposals. In Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments – a report commissioned by COAG – the Commission compared the regulatory frameworks, land supply processes, developer contributions, assessment and referral processes, and the impacts of planning and zoning on competition in retail markets of the jurisdictions. Governance, community engagement and transparency and accountability were also explored. The planning task is also suffering from ‘objectives overload’, according to the Commission. A growing number of issues and policy agendas impact on land-use considerations, including population pressures, climate change and risks posed by fires and floods. The many cases where the costs of a land use are borne by people in localised areas, while the benefits are shared across a whole city or region — such as major residential developments or waste disposal sites — pose a core challenge. The report identifies numerous ‘leading practices’ which can contribute to smoother processes and improved outcomes, such as: ensuring that local plans are more quickly brought up to date with the strategic city plans; completing structure planning of greenfield areas before development commences; ensuring alternative development and rezoning assessment mechanisms are transparent and independent and have clear criteria for triggering them; engaging the community and business as partners and clients in planning. Although each jurisdiction is home to at least one leading practice, the report concludes that there are opportunities for all jurisdictions to improve the way they operate in this important area, in order to reduce burdens on business and costs to the community, as well as to increase competition and improve the liveability of cities.planning; zoning; development; planning and zoning systems; land development; gaming; COAG; regulatory reform agenda
Your fish. Your future. Queensland Fisheries Strategy 2009-2014
No full textThe Queensland Fisheries Strategy 2009-2014 sets the direction for the future of fisheries and aims to address some of the challenges impacting Queensland's fisheries both from within Australia and abroad.
Every year in Queensland almost a million people fish for a living, for recreation, or for traditional and customary purposes. Countless others rely on sustainable fisheries as the focus of tourism and other businesses - but there are major challenges for the fishing sector.
Fisheries resources are finite and under significant stress. Fisheries face challenges including the potential for over-exploitation by all fishing sectors, increasing consumer demand, a rising population, coastal development, the effects of climate change, biosecurity risks, import competition and rising production costs
All boom, no benefit?
Full text linkThis paper responds to the draft Queensland Plan, asking where economic growth will come from to lift incomes above the rest of Australia.
All boom, no benefit? from the Centre for Policy Development argues Queensland must chart a new course toward reliable, sustainable and equitably distributed growth – or face a future of fewer jobs and economic disruption.
Queensland is at a fork in the road. The days of easy coal mining revenue are running out, and Queensland’s incomes are yet to match the rest of Australia. In fact, average Queensland household incomes are 5 per cent below the national average. Experience from previous mining booms suggests incomes may fall further behind as the investment phase of the latest mining boom cools.
A new era of global growth will challenge the performance of commodity exporting economies. Focusing on economic diversity is now more important because the structure of the global economy is changing rapidly. The transformation underway is unlikely to be smooth. Slowing demand for coal, a new economic growth model in China, and high commodity price volatility are likely to be permanent features of the next phase of global growth.
Key findings from the report include:
Coal prices have dropped at least 30 per cent from their 2008 highs, and the rest of Asia is unlikely to replace falling Chinese demand.
China’s new growth model will reshape Queensland’s economy, since it represents Queensland’s largest export market. Exports to China were Queensland’s largest growth point over the past decade, increasing from 9 billion.
A tripling in commodity price volatility will challenge Queensland’s less competitive mines and impact government budgets.
Agribusiness, tourism, education, health and wealth management are industries forecast to grow rapidly over coming decades, while mining is forecast to grow slower than global GDP.
Only 26 per cent of jobs from new mines and related infrastructure are long-term.
The draft Queensland Plan shows Queenslanders understand these risks and want to develop a much more diverse economy to prepare for them. The Queensland Plan represents a step in the right direction toward governing for the future – if it has staying power through multiple election cycles and no gaps in its measures of progress. If Queensland misses this opportunity to chart a new path, it is likely to be forced through a rapid economic transit ion as underperforming industries and their assets become stranded.
The report recommends Queensland adopt a new economic strategy that focuses less on attracting capital investment, and more on promoting economic diversity. To capitalise on its natural competitive advantages, Queensland should level the playing field for non-mining industries, establish an endowment fund to manage natural resources, and convene a State Summit to identify growth opportunities.
Download the All boom, no benefit? report by Laura Eadie and Michael Hayman
Read more about the Too Many Ports report showing the under-utilisation in Queensland’s existing ports and questioning the need for port growth
An evidence-based approach to professional development planning in large state educational systems
No full textThis paper presents a systems-level approach for adjudicating the prioritization, selection, and planning of inservcie professional development (PD) for teachers. We present a step-by-step model for documenting and assessing system-wide 'bids' for professional development program
Tourism development in the southern wheatbelt of Western Australia. From dryandra woodland to dryandra country
Full text linkTourism development is often viewed as a means to counter the social and economic decline of communities in
regional areas of Australia. Such decline is prevalent, particularly in areas determined to be on the tourism
periphery. Peripheral regions present special problems in terms of tourism development owing to a lack of
product, market access and infrastructure. This report presents the findings of a case study focusing on the
southern Wheatbelt of Western Australia, in an area known as Dryandra Country. This is a region that is seeking
to develop tourism as a buffer against the varying fortunes of its grain and sheep based economy as well as a
means to counter the social decline of the towns. Seven local government areas (LGAs), in league with the state
conservation agency, Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) and various other interest
groups, embarked on a tourism development initiative centred on Dryandra Woodland and the wildlife tourism
product it potentially offered. The purpose was to develop Dryandra as an internationally significant naturebased
destination. This was attempted partly through constructing an iconic captive wildlife tourism facility,
Barna Mia, which housed some very rare fauna. Research during 2003 found that while Barna Mia provided a
highly satisfying experience for its visitors, there was no indication that it was progressing toward the
international tourism icon status as intended. The progress of the LGAs toward developing a coordinated
regional product also appeared to be slow. Various issues were identified that contributed to the observed
situation including: CALM’s role as the sole manager of the regional icon; the character of the tourism system in
the region; a lack of adequate and accurate tourism data and poor communication. The report provides a detailed
description of the situation as it was found in 2003. Recommendations to enable further progress in tourism
development are made
Learning from cross-border mechanisms to support climate change adaptation in Australia
Full text linkAbstractThe impacts of climate change do not adhere to conventional governance boundaries. Floods for example do not stop at the state border, nor are storm surges contained within local government jurisdictions. Whilst this may appear self-evident, this \u27inconvenient institutional truth\u27 poses considerable challenges to existing and deeply embedded governance frameworks. Despite growing recognition that implementing effective adaptation initiatives will require transcending artificially imposed bureaucratic and/or administrative boundaries, the cross-boundary implications of climate change adaptation have been largely ignored within the Australian context (partly as a result of the historical context and nature of Australian federalism). There are significant implications for the evolving national role in climate change adaptation, and the relationship to cross-border state issues that this project identifies and highlights. This project focuses on learning from existing cross-border regulatory mechanisms with a view to strengthening and improving cross-border climate change adaptation practices in Australia.Please cite this report as:Steele, W, Eslami-Andargoli, L, Crick, F, Serrao-Neumann, S, Singh-Peterson, L, Dale, P, Low Choy, D, Sporne, I, Shearer, S, Iotti, A 2013 Learning from cross-border mechanisms to support climate change adaptation in Australia, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, pp. 87AbstractThe impacts of climate change do not adhere to conventional governance boundaries. Floods for example do not stop at the state border, nor are storm surges contained within local government jurisdictions. Whilst this may appear self-evident, this \u27inconvenient institutional truth\u27 poses considerable challenges to existing and deeply embedded governance frameworks. Despite growing recognition that implementing effective adaptation initiatives will require transcending artificially imposed bureaucratic and/or administrative boundaries, the cross-boundary implications of climate change adaptation have been largely ignored within the Australian context (partly as a result of the historical context and nature of Australian federalism). There are significant implications for the evolving national role in climate change adaptation, and the relationship to cross-border state issues that this project identifies and highlights. This project focuses on learning from existing cross-border regulatory mechanisms with a view to strengthening and improving cross-border climate change adaptation practices in Australia.By: Wendy Steele, Leila Eslami-Andargoli, Florence Crick, Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Lila Singh-Peterson, Pat Dale, Darryl Low Choy, Ilva Sporne, Scott Shearer and Anne-Sophie Lotti
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Full text linkBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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