Campbell Newman had the first coherent and sensible economic plan for Queensland since I wrote the economic development strategies for the Goss and Borbidge governments. His electoral defeat means that Queensland will stagger along without such a plan, the resources it would have freed up and the economic growth it would have fostered. So the first question for your proposals is, as always: where will the money come from? The second question is: can you clearly demonstrate that the risk-adjusted rate of return from these projects will meet the opportunity costs - the highest RA RoR from alternative uses of funds, which, given the state of government in Queensland, would usually be for tax cuts rather than government projects.

Labour/Green visionaries send us back 150 a couple of hundred years where their is no electricity. They are usually the 'visionaries' who get promoted into top uni jobs. Just ask South Australia.

Good old belching joe. If he did something instead of pocketing the states wealth QLD would have bEen up with the two most advanced states in au.

You are funny Runner, the storm that took out the lights in SA was an act of God according to insurance companies, so lets blame her.

runner, I think that it's a long time since university expansion passed the point of marginal utility falling to zero, I'd wind back government funding severely and leave the bulk of unis to live or die through private markets. The entrenched mindset in unis is very damaging to our society, the more its funded, the worse the negative impact.

Cooper, I didn't realize that Weatherill was either God or female. My faith in both is shattered.