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23 Jun 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3434A.241
The 2022-23 Queensland State Budget has seen a reverse to old patterns of the Cairns Region to again being below the average for equivalent regional areas.
Statistical Note23 Jun 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3434B.242
Examination of the 'Queensland Hospital Capacity Expansion Program' between 2024 to 2028 indicates that the Cairns region is receiving no special treatment.
Statistical Note23 May 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.240
MIXED TRENDS - While the airport figures were showing a bounce back of domestic visitation above pre-Covid levels, overall level of activity remains much the same.
Statistical Note12 May 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3429.238
Latest residential population growth figures indicates that of the northern cities, the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020-21 most severely affected the population growth of Cairns City LGA.
Statistical Note21 Apr 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.237
POST-COVID ON ITS WAY - Available March data indicates progressive easing of restrictions are seeing the regional economy moving into a post-Covid era.
Statistical Note01 Apr 2022 Media Article CE Ref J3416.236
Article contributed to CONNECT FNQ MAGAZINE highlights how, quietly and largely unheralded in the background, the region’s farming entrepreneurs have been kicking goals for the region’s economy.
Article21 Mar 2022 Media Article CE Ref J3426.234
The commitment by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, of funding for the completion of sealing of the Outback Way, is a nation building initiative that will be of great benefit for Australia’s Pacific North East Regions.
Media Release21 Mar 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.235
SLOW GOING - Available February data indicates that the improvements evident in January over the pre-Covid period, stalled.
Statistical Note01 Mar 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3425.233
There has been substantial talk of late about how electricity prices have gone down. However, the statistical note illustrates what has really happened over the long term.
Statistical Note21 Feb 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.232
January data indicates that while tourism is still down on the pre-Covid levels, the overall level of activity in the regional economy has held up and appears to have shown growth over the previous twelve months.
Statistical Note21 Jan 2022 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.231
November and December saw the regional economy starting to lift again but during December, seasonal downturn effects were evident.
Statistical Note07 Dec 2021 Media Article CE Ref J3401.230
Article contributed to CONNECT CAIRNS MAGAZINE not only highlights Cairns Airport and Cairns region's leading role in aviation in the north but the region now leads in aviation employment in all of regional Australia outside the major metropolitan centres. It also highlights the important role the general aviation and aircraft maintenance and services sector plays in the region's economy.
Article19 Nov 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.229
October figures indicate that overall level of activity in the Cairns regional economy is stalled pending the opening of Queensland borders.
Statistical Note21 Oct 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.228
The relatively small 'hit' to the recovery of the Cairns regional economy in July and August due to lockdowns in NSW, VIC and for a time, SE-QLD, stabilised in September.
Statistical Note28 Sep 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3392.227
This research paper prepared for Cairns Regional Council traces four major 'shocks' that have occurred to tourism in the Cairns region over the past forty years - what caused them and how the sector recovered.
Research Paper22 Sep 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.224
August saw the Covid restrictions in NSW, VIC and SE-QLD continue to impact the Cairns region with airport domestic passenger numbers continuing to contract and a fall continuing in the Single Touch Payroll Employment Index.
Statistical Note31 Aug 2021 Media Article CE Ref J3389.226
Article contributed to CONNECT CAIRNS MAGAZINE that identifies the major 'bottlenecks' holding back growth of the Cairns regional economy and the importance of removing these bottlenecks in the process of post-Covid recovery.
Article25 Aug 2021 Cummings Economics Report CE Ref J3359.225
This research study commissioned by Cairns Skills Aviation Centre (CSAC) with support of Cairns Regional Council provides an economic profile of the airport's general aviation sector located on the western side of the airport.
Report20 Aug 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.223
July saw the upward trend in domestic visitors reverse strongly and the region's Employment Index drop sharply as the third wave Covid restrictions impacted NSW, VIC & SE QLD.
Statistical Note16 Jul 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3324.222
Reviews latest available information on JobSeeker, Workforce, Single Touch Payroll Jobs Index, Airport Passenger Statistics & Construction
Statistical Note05 Jul 2021 Research & Statistical Note CE Ref J3386.221
After a number of years of figures well below State regional averages on a per capita basis, QLD's budgeted capital expenditure for the Cairns region 2021-22 has pushed above equivalent regional averages. However, on regional averages over the past eight (8) years, the region is still owed about $1Billion.
Statistical Note02 Jul 2021 Cairns Economy Presentation CE Ref J3352.220
The Presentation to the BEMAS Conference (organised by the Centre for International Trade & Business in Asia (CITBA) at JCU), looks at the factors that have led to Cairns' growth from a population of 16,400 recorded in Census 1947 to over 160,000 today and to the city passing seven (7) other regional cities in population since 1976.
Presentation
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