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Growing North Queensland? Challenges Confronting Social Policy

Growth and unemployment, redistribution and citizenship: confronting some new realities in rural and northern Queensland.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Graham Riches
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The other day an economist friend told me that in Brisbane and commercial centres to the south, when discussion turned to financial and business considerations in the North, the key question asked was how to grow North Queensland? This market driven and profit seeking way in which southern entrepreneurs regard the beautiful and fragile environment in the north of this State, and its exploitation, was cause for concern but did not come as a surprise. After all, economic growth and international competitiveness is publicly endorsed by leading politicians and the captains of industry alike as the key to both material well being and social justice. Indeed it is central to today's conventional wisdom. Yet this belief must be challenged if there is to be creative discussion about social policy today.

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Queensland Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , June 1994 , pp. 28 - 37
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