DOCSLIB.ORG

Hansard 25 May 1995

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Hansard 25 May 1995 Legislative Assembly 11891 25 May 1995 THURSDAY, 25 MAY 1995 Cannabis From Mr Turner (25 signatories) praying that the statutory prohibition on the production and usage of cannabis be continued. Mr SPEAKER (Hon. J. Fouras, Ashgrove) Petitions received. read prayers and took the chair at 10 a.m. QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE PETITIONS Dr D. Grundmann The Clerk announced the receipt of the Mr BORBIDGE (10.05 a.m.): I refer the following petitions— Premier to the judgment handed down by Justice Fryberg on 19 May in the defamation case Grundmann v. Georgson, in which His Abortion Law Honour stated— From Mr Livingstone (230 signatories) "However I do find that the plaintiff praying that sections of the Queensland has performed abortions on numerous Criminal Code which make abortion unlawful women at his Townsville clinic when there be repealed and that abortion services be was no necessity for him to do so in order established in the public hospital system and to prevent serious physical or psychiatric community based women's health centres with injury to the patient. I disbelieve Dr no charge attached to this service. Grundmann's assertions that he honestly and sincerely applied that test before each and every abortion which he Liquor Licensing; Police Staffing, performed." Mackay I ask: in view of this finding, will the Premier From Mr Malone (36 signatories) now initiate an investigation into the abortion praying that (a) discussion and debate be practices of Dr Grundmann? reopened concerning liquor licensing and Mr W. K. GOSS: I have had occasion closing times; (b) serious consideration be before to draw the attention of this House to given to nightclubs/hotels closing at or prior to the fraudulent way in which the Leader of the 3 a.m.; and (c) additional funding be provided Opposition misstates the facts of any particular for an increase in police staffing in the Mackay situation, and he has done it again. I have district. advice here to the effect—— Mr BORBIDGE: I rise to a point of order. I find those remarks offensive and I ask Police Patrols, Rockhampton that they be withdrawn. The judge said it. The From Mr Pearce (3,512 signatories) Premier is copping out. praying that serious consideration be given to Mr SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of an increase in police patrols in suburban the Opposition will resume his seat. I ask the residential areas in Rockhampton. Premier to withdraw. The Leader of the Opposition finds the remarks offensive. Mr W. K. GOSS: Mr Speaker, I Water Fluoridation withdraw unequivocally. But in doing so, I From Ms Power (10 signatories) praying make the point in passing by way of privilege that legislation be enacted to require all local or order—whatever the Speaker deems authorities to hold a referendum on appropriate—that I think we have to allow compulsory fluoridation. some latitude in relation to debate in this place. If it is not acceptable to say that a member has misled the House or that a Juvenile Offenders; Penalties and member has misstated the facts of a particular Sentences situation deliberately, there will not be much scope left for debate in this place. However, I From Mrs Sheldon (3,280 signatories) can understand that the Leader of the praying that the Parliament of Queensland will Opposition is sensitive about these matters, (a) urgently legislate for more meaningful and because he does it again and again. disincentive oriented penalties for juvenile offenders; and (b) allow for parental restitutive Mr BORBIDGE: I rise to a point of measures and monetary payment to victims order. I find those remarks offensive and I ask by offenders. that they be withdrawn. 25 May 1995 11892 Legislative Assembly Mr SPEAKER: Order! There is no point Koala Coast Secretariat of order. The Leader of the Opposition will Mr BORBIDGE: In directing a further resume his seat. question to the Premier, I refer to Mr W. K. GOSS: I simply make the taxpayer-funded slush funds operating under point in response to the Leader of the the auspices of the Koala Coast Secretariat, Opposition that my advice is that, although which directly involves Labor members Justice Fryberg made the observation that the affected by the south coast tollway buying Leader of the Opposition referred to—and this their way out of political trouble by way of is the bit that the Leader of the Opposition left sponsorship, and I ask: has he approved and out, which is what he does time and time does he support the administration of this again—— scheme by the Minister for Environment and Mr Borbidge interjected. Heritage? Mr W. K. GOSS: The Leader of the Mr W. K. GOSS: At the time that the Opposition misleads this House, the press decision was taken in relation to the gallery and the public. He does so on the motorway—a decision that the Opposition cynical and dishonest basis that by the time when in Government never had the guts or they find out the next day nobody will follow up the foresight to take, and now in Opposition it on the story. That is the sort of slippery is running its standard approach: "We have a character the Leader of the Opposition is. The policy but we will not tell you where it is or what facts are these. This is my advice. Although it is", and instead is trying to infiltrate and Justice Fryberg made the observation to which manipulate a community organisation—— the Leader of the Opposition referred, he also Mr Cooper interjected. specifically said that he made no finding as to whether the doctor had carried out illegal Mr SPEAKER: Order! I warn the abortions. He made no finding. He specifically member for Crows Nest under Standing Order said that. 123A. This matter of controversy arose last year. Mr W. K. GOSS: The Leader of the The Leader of the Opposition tried to make Opposition is trying to manipulate a the same cheap point last year. When it did community organisation to use snap-frozen arise last year, the then Health Minister dead koalas for political purposes. What a referred matters relating to the services policy! What leadership! provided by the doctor to the Health Rights In relation to these particular Commission for an independent assessment communities—there have been legitimate calls and review. I understand that that is still from community organisations saying, "This forthcoming. development will have a social and The law in this State which allows the environmental impact. We want the legal termination of pregnancies is the law that Government to respond. We have concerns", was established in this State under the former and the Government has responded. The National Party Government of which Mr cheap politics of the people with no policy are Borbidge was a member. In 1986, when Mr that, when the community calls for the Borbidge was a member of the Government, Government to respond, if we do not respond the law in this State was established to allow they say that the Government should respond the termination of pregnancy— with these facilities and the Government should make these funds available. When we Mr Littleproud interjected. do respond, they criticise that as well. It is the Mr SPEAKER: Order! I warn the last refuge of a policy-bankrupt coalition, and member for Western Downs under Standing that is what we have in Queensland. The Order 123A. coalition in Queensland has no drive, no Mr Horan interjected. energy, no ideas and no policies. It is policy bankrupt. Communities have made a Mr SPEAKER: Order! I warn the legitimate request—— member for Toowoomba South under Standing Order 123A. Mr Connor interjected. Mr W. K. GOSS: —for the preservation Mr SPEAKER: Order! I warn the of the mother's life, using the broad definition member for Nerang under Standing Order of that term. Mr Borbidge made no statement 123A. at that time. I presume that he endorses that Mr W. K. GOSS: These communities broad definition of the entitlement to have made a legitimate request that the termination, as established under his Government compensate them for and Government in the mid eighties. address the social impacts of this Legislative Assembly 11893 25 May 1995 development, and the Government has research the history of this matter. I came indicated that it is prepared to do so. A list of across an article that stated that Mr Cooper criteria was developed. There was public was in trouble because his ministerial opportunity for people to make applications. colleagues thought that he was too much of a Details of those applications that have been high-flier, and the National Party Cabinet of successful have been published. Furthermore, the time knocked back any spending on the when this matter was discussed at Cabinet, it Fire Service for 12 months because it did not was made plain by the Cabinet that the want to promote Mr Cooper any further at that process should be audited by an independent stage. So there was no high-reach aerial firm of accountants, and that was done to firefighting equipment, no firefighting uniforms ensure the integrity of the process. and no good gear for the officers because Mr Cooper had done very well in Corrective Services and his ministerial colleagues were Aerial Firefighting Equipment worried. That is what Bill Gunn said at that Mr LIVINGSTONE: I ask the Deputy time. Premier and Minister for Emergency Services: Mr W. K. Goss: Where's Bill? can he advise the House about new aerial firefighting equipment recently ordered by the Mr BURNS: Where is Bill? G'day, Bill! Queensland Fire Service to enable the State's This is what you said at that time.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Australian Government Investment Promotion in Japan 1983–96
    PACIFIC ECONOMIC PAPER NO. 284 OCTOBER 1998 Attracting FDI: Australian Government Investment Promotion in Japan 1983–96 Jamie Anderson Monash University A USTRALIA–JAPAN RESEARCH CENTRE © Australia–Japan Research Centre 1998 This work is copyright. Apart from those uses which may be permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 as amended, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Pacific Economic Papers are published under the direction of the Research Committee of the Australia–Japan Research Centre. Current members are: Prof. Stuart Harris (Chair) Assoc. Prof. Christopher Prof. Warwick McKibbin The Australian National Findlay The Australian National University The University of Adelaide University Prof. Sandra Buckley Prof. Jim Fox Prof. John Nevile Griffith University The Australian National The University of New University South Wales Prof. Ken Davis The University of Mel- Prof. Ross Garnaut Prof. Alan Rix bourne The Australian National The University of University Queensland Prof. Peter Drysdale The Australian National Prof. Keith Hancock Mr Ben Smith University Australian Industrial The Australian National Relations Commission University Prof. Ron Duncan The Australian National Prof. Jocelyn Horne University Macquarie University Papers submitted for publication are subject to double-blind external review by two referees. The Australia–Japan Research Centre is part of the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, The Australian National University, Canberra. ISSN 0 728 8409 ISBN 0 86413 232 8 Australia–Japan Research Centre Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Telephone: (61 2) 6249 3780 Facsimile: (61 2) 6249 0767 Email: [email protected] URL: http://ajrcnet.anu.edu.au Edited by Sarah Leeming Typeset by Minni Reis ii CONTENTS List of figures and tables ..................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • ASIAN REPRESENTATIONS of AUSTRALIA Alison Elizabeth Broinowski 12 December 2001 a Thesis Submitted for the Degree Of
    ABOUT FACE: ASIAN REPRESENTATIONS OF AUSTRALIA Alison Elizabeth Broinowski 12 December 2001 A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University ii Statement This thesis is my own work. Preliminary research was undertaken collaboratively with a team of Asian Australians under my co-direction with Dr Russell Trood and Deborah McNamara. They were asked in 1995-96 to collect relevant material, in English and vernacular languages, from the public sphere in their countries of origin. Three monographs based on this work were published in 1998 by the Centre for the Study of Australia Asia Relations at Griffith University and these, together with one unpublished paper, are extensively cited in Part 2. The researchers were Kwak Ki-Sung, Anne T. Nguyen, Ouyang Yu, and Heidi Powson and Lou Miles. Further research was conducted from 2000 at the National Library with a team of Chinese and Japanese linguists from the Australian National University, under an ARC project, ‘Asian Accounts of Australia’, of which Shun Ikeda and I are Chief Investigators. Its preliminary findings are cited in Part 2. Alison Broinowski iii Abstract This thesis considers the ways in which Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders’ assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of what is ‘typically’ Australian. It reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism in the twentieth century, and considers how Occidentalist strategies have come to be used to exclude and marginalise Australia.
    [Show full text]
  • Local-Global Partnerships for High-Tech Development: Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models
    ECONOMICParker / LOCAL-GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS QUARTERLY / May 2001 Local-Global Partnerships for High-Tech Development: Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models Paul Parker Paul Parker is director of the University of Waterloo Local Economic Development Program at the University of Waterloo. He has degrees Advocates of high-tech development use conflicting top-down and bottom-up models from Mount Allison to respond to the challenge of the increasing knowledge intensity of the global econ- University, the Australian omy. The trend for policies in the United States, Canada, and Australia is to shift the National University, and the emphasis from federal government and external resources to increased state and local London School of Economics. responsibility. The competing top-down and bottom-up approaches are reviewed and He has worked in Australia, then illustrated with case studies. Canada’s Technology Triangle and Australia’s Japan, and the United Multi-Function Polis were both initiated in 1987 and then transformed in 1997. The Kingdom and is currently an evaluation of these case studies identifies weaknesses in the original models and calls associate professor in for the integration of the two development approaches into a model of local-global geography at the University partnership for high-tech development based on the building of local capacity through of Waterloo. His research partnerships with local and external actors. interests include local economic development, Japanese trade and/or The increasing knowledge intensity of the economy has led many governments to promote eco- investment, energy efficiency, nomic development based on high-tech industries. The process of technology creation and transfer sustainability indicators, and is often assumed to be globally uniform, yet advocates of high-tech development use conflicting environmental policy.
    [Show full text]
  • Multifunction Polis Concept, to Australia Its Failure
    20, í:; M ULTIFUNCTION POLIS LOST CITY OF OPPORTUNITY Coral Baines July 1999 This thesis is submitted to the Department of Politics, The University of Adelaide for the degree of Doctor of PhilosoPhY. ABSTRACT its possibilities and This thesis examines the Multifunction Polis concept, to Australia its failure. of primary concern is the proposal of the concept concept was the by the Japanese in 1987. The rationale for this original as the means promotion of twenty first century manufacturing industry thesis therefore is to revive economic growth. Part of the context of the 1980s' the faltering state of the Australian economy in the mid 1980s was a time of The Japanese context is also examined. The mid the possibility of a spirited d.ebate about Japan's economic success and world was based on the Japanese bid for global hegemony. The post-war political structures principles which embod.ied the social, economic and concessions that reflected America,s internal power structures, including growth was to remove mad,e to labour. America's solution to stalled world International barriers to free trad.e and withdraw its support for the principles of weak Labor organisation, effectively universalising the new its own interests as state and weak labour. since Australia had identihed economic coterminous with those of the united States, its shift to those terms' rationalism and enterprise bargaining can be explained in development However, Japan had, d,eveloped a unique mod'e of capitalist principles in the face and its challenge was to retain its own constitutive the new trade of increasing pressltres from America to align itself with order.
    [Show full text]
  • PRG 1618/Box 1/Folder 1: Family Memorabilia, Photos and Slides of Janine and Family, and a Drawing in Charcoal and Pencil on Paper of Janine Haines (PRG 1618/1/1/1)
    ______________________________________________________________________________ Haines, Janine PRG 1618 Papers of Janine Haines Box List ______________________________________________________________________________ PRG 1618/ box 1: PRG 1618/box 1/folder 1: Family memorabilia, photos and slides of Janine and family, and a drawing in charcoal and pencil on paper of Janine Haines (PRG 1618/1/1/1). To view additional photographs in this folder do an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search for PRG 1618/1/1/1, 5-6. Folder includes: ‘Adelaide Church Guardian’ April 1995 – front page ‘Politician speaks out at St Pauls’. Transcript 15 March 1990 ABC interview for ‘7.30 Report’ on AD [Australian Democrats] policy for Federal election. Paul Lyneham questions JH [Janine Haines]. Script ‘A Sort of Crusade’ undated but post 1990 16 Dec 1991. Jocelyn Scott’s cover letter for edited chapter to go into ‘Breaking Through’. Letter 13 Dec 91 from Harry Evans req memorabilia for exhibition ‘Women in the Federal Parliament’ to be opened 27 Feb 92. Ann Millar ref. Script Laura Whelan speaks to JH [Janine Haines] in Adelaide. No date, but mostly covers ‘Suffrage to Sufferance’ material. Undated letter and brief CV to Marilyn Waring. Includes mention of my exp of reviewing ‘Playing the State’ for Sept’s ABR. 1991 set of notes for Candidates Skills Training session to be held at 711 South Road 19 May. Some astute advice. PRG 1618/box 1/folder 2: ‘PAC Returns’ AM honours list NCW of SA note. PRG 1618/box 1/folder 3: Congratulatory letters. June 2001. PRG 1618/box 1/folder 4: Congratulatory letters, including those from Gough Whitlam, Phillip Adams, Mike Rann, Eric Neal, John Olsen and Bob Carr.
    [Show full text]
  • An Inquiry Into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right
    THE OTHER RADICALISM: AN INQUIRY INTO CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN EXTREME RIGHT IDEOLOGY, POLITICS AND ORGANIZATION 1975-1995 JAMES SALEAM A Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor Of Philosophy Department Of Government And Public Administration University of Sydney Australia December 1999 INTRODUCTION Nothing, except being understood by intelligent people, gives greater pleasure, than being misunderstood by blunderheads. Georges Sorel. _______________________ This Thesis was conceived under singular circumstances. The author was in custody, convicted of offences arising from a 1989 shotgun attack upon the home of Eddie Funde, Representative to Australia of the African National Congress. On October 6 1994, I appeared for Sentence on another charge in the District Court at Parramatta. I had been convicted of participation in an unsuccessful attempt to damage a vehicle belonging to a neo-nazi informer. My Thesis -proposal was tendered as evidence of my prospects for rehabilitation and I was cross-examined about that document. The Judge (whose Sentence was inconsequential) said: … Mr Saleam said in evidence that his doctorate [sic] of philosophy will engage his attention for the foreseeable future; that he has no intention of using these exertions to incite violence.1 I pondered how it was possible to use a Thesis to incite violence. This exercise in courtroom dialectics suggested that my thoughts, a product of my experiences in right-wing politics, were considered acts of subversion. I concluded that the Extreme Right was ‘The Other Radicalism’, understood by State agents as odorous as yesteryear’s Communist Party. My interest in Extreme Right politics derived from a quarter-century involvement therein, at different levels of participation.
    [Show full text]
  • Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1972-83
    Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1972-83 Edited by Melissa Conley Tyler and John Robbins © The Australian Institute of International Affairs 2018 ISBN: 978-0-909992-04-0 This publication may be distributed on the condition that it is attributed to the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Any views or opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily shared by the Australian Institute of International Affairs or any of its members or affiliates. Cover Image: © Tony Feder/Fairfax Syndication Australian Institute of International Affairs 32 Thesiger Court, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia Phone: 02 6282 2133 Facsimile: 02 6285 2334 Website:www.internationalaffairs.org.au Email:[email protected] Table of Contents Foreword Allan Gyngell AO FAIIA ......................................................... 1 Editors’ Note Melissa Conley Tyler and John Robbins CSC ........................ 3 Opening Remarks Zara Kimpton OAM ................................................................ 5 Australian Foreign Policy 1972-83: An Overview The Whitlam Government 1972-75: Gough Whitlam and Don Willesee ................................................................................ 11 Professor Peter Edwards AM FAIIA The Fraser Government 1975-1983: Andrew Peacock and Tony Street ............................................................................ 25 Dr David Lee Discussion ............................................................................. 49 Moderated by Emeritus Professor Peter Boyce AO Australia’s Relations
    [Show full text]
  • Hansard Index 1990
    WESTERN AUSTRALIA PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) -Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly THIRTY-THIRD PARLIAMENT SECOND SESSION From 1 May to 23 December 1990 390 ELIZABETH 1I VOLUMES 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288 and 289 GARRYL DUFfFLD. Gavsnent Pvtitnr Wn in Auwal 1990 iii I CONTENTS page Committees . .. .. .. x Index to Parliamentary Debates - Index to Subjects . (1)... Index to Questions and Sp e e c h es.......................... (255) Legislartu of Western Australia . ............ ............. ..nv-ni Members of rho Legislative Assembly .......... ....-. "..... vmi Members of the Liegislative Council .............................. vui ministry ... .I. .I. .I. tv-n, Officers of Parliament.. Papers tabled during the Session - Legislative Assembly .... .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .8958 Legislative Council ... 8943 Public Bills of the Session ................................. xvwi Public Statutes of the Session ................................ ii Report of Debates .................................... I iv LEGISLATURE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Governor HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS THEODORE PAGE BURT, AC, KCMO Lieutenant Governor HIS HONOUR MR JUSTICE DAVID KINGSLEY MALCOLM LAWRENCE MINISTRY (RECONSTITUTED) From 13 March 1990 Premier Treasurer Minister for Public Sector Hon CARMEN MARY LAWRENCE, B Psych. Management; The Family:, Aboriginal Affairs; Ph D, MLA Multicultural aod Ethnic Affairs; Women's Interests Deputy Prer Minister for Fnance mnd Hion IAN FREDERICK TAYLOR. B Econ (Horn), Economic Developmem; Goldfields
    [Show full text]
  • Hansard 21 August, 1990
    Legislative Assembly 2780 21 August, 1990 NOTE: There could be differences between this document and the official printed Hansard, Vol. 315 TUESDAY, 21 AUGUST 1990 ———— Mr SPEAKER (Hon. J. Fouras, Ashgrove) read prayers and took the chair at 10 a.m. ABSENCE OF THE CLERK Mr SPEAKER: I have to inform the House of the unavoidable absence of the Clerk of the Parliament, who is attending a funeral this morning. ASSENT TO BILLS Assent to the following Bills reported by Mr Speaker— Appropriation Bill (No. 1); State Housing (Validation of Regulations) Bill; Picture Theatres and Films Act Repeal and Other Acts Amendment Bill; Liquor Act Amendment Bill; Land Act Amendment Bill; Jury Act Amendment Bill; Irvinebank State Treatment Works (Sale and Operation) Bill; Explosives Act Amendment Bill; Corrective Services (Validation of Regulations) Bill; Coal Mining Act Amendment Bill. ASSENT TO BILL Appropriation Bill (No. 1) Mr SPEAKER: I have to report that on 8 August 1990, I presented to His Excellency the Governor Appropriation Bill 1990-1991 (No. 1) for the royal assent and that His Excellency was pleased, in my presence, to subscribe his assent thereto in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty. LANDSBOROUGH AND SHERWOOD BY-ELECTIONS Return of Writs Mr SPEAKER: I have to inform the House that the writs issued by me on 5 July 1990 for the election of members to serve in the Legislative Assembly for the electoral districts of Landsborough and Sherwood have been returned to me with a certificate endorsed thereon by the returning officers of the elections, on 28 July, of Mrs Joan Mary Sheldon and David Anthony Dunworth, Esquire, to serve as such members.
    [Show full text]
  • Innovative Governance in a Metropolitan Context? the Case of the Office of the North, Adelaide
    Governance 06 Innovative Governance in a Metropolitan Context? The Case of the Office of the North, Adelaide Peter Trainor Flinders University Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT In the lead-up to the 2002 South Australian election, the Labor Party announced its intention to implement a suite of policy initiatives for Adelaide’s northern region. At the time, “Labor’s Plan for the Northern Region” was framed to address key challenges (and opportunities) facing the North1, including the dual dynamic of: 1) the region’s real – and perceived – status as an area of concentrated disadvantage and dysfunction; and 2) the region’s identified role as a site for future urban growth and continuing industrial and economic development. Among Labor’s plans for the North were those for the establishment of a new “Northern Region Strategic Forum” which would “strengthen …relationships between State Government, its agencies and Northern Region Councils” and “promote and support regional initiatives and lead economic and social development through a more strategic approach by the State Government”. The work of the Forum was to be “oversee[n]” by four “Northern Ministers”2 (Australian Labor Party 2001). Although Labor did not secure an absolute parliamentary majority in the State election of February 2002, leader Mike Rann was able to form what became a surprisingly stable Government. Towards the end of 2002, the Government began to implement its plans for the Northern Region Strategic Forum. An Office of the North was approved by State Cabinet on 19 August, and the Office was opened, with little fanfare, on 4 November 2002.
    [Show full text]
  • Australia's Gold Coast
    17th IPHS Conference, Delft 2016 | HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE | VOLUME 02 The Urban Fabric | Morphology, Housing and Renewal | Rebuilding- and Renewal- A HISTORY OF VISIONS AND pLANS FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF A COASTAL TOURISM CITY INTO A KNOWLEDGE CITY: AUSTRALIA’S GOLD COAST Daniel O’Hare Bond University Many coastal mass tourism centres have attempted to reinvent themselves as they have grown from informal coastal towns into large cities. Lifestyle migration boosts urban growth as these cities become home to ‘permanent tourists’ attracted by the characteristics that attract tourism. Australia’s best known resort, the Queensland Gold Coast, provides a case study of a resort region experiencing similar transformations to those noted in Honolulu, Miami and Sitges, Spain. These cities have pursued broader socioeconomic resilience rather than the common strategy of simply expanding or improving their tourism appeal. Using literature review and documentary research, this paper traces how ideas of a ‘knowledge city’ have featured in Gold Coast planning history since the 1980s, through proposals including an ‘innovation corridor’, ‘research triangle’, a designated knowledge precinct and the development of universities and hospitals under plans and strategies for economic development. Although implementation has been sporadic, the case study demonstrates a continuity in narrative that has shaped outcomes towards the desired ‘knowledge city’, thereby creating a more cohesive urban structure integrating knowledge nodes, town centres and urban transport infrastructure investments. This case study will add knowledge to inform planners grappling with the transformation of similar coastal tourism areas into significant cities. Keywords knowledge based urban development (KBUD), Gold Coast, coastal tourism city, knowledge city, health and knowledge precincts.
    [Show full text]
  • This Thesis Is Presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University
    N eoliberalism and Australia's Economic Relationship with Japan: Policy Paradigms in a Global Political Economy This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University 1996 Mark Beeson B.A Honours (Murdoch) ii I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research. It contains as its main content work which has not previously been submitted for a degree at any university. iii Abstract The increasing internationalisation and integration of global economic activity has meant that the way nations seek to manage and accommodate such external imperatives is a critical determinant of national economic welfare. There has, however, been a notable variety of responses to these ubiquitous forces. In Australia, neoliberal ideas came to exert a powerful ideational influence over policy-makers during the 1980s as they attempted to reposition 'Australia' in response to the exigencies of external competition. This thesis will argue that Australian policy makers' commitment to neoliberal ideas meant that policy was constructed within a limited set of theoretical parameters, which were unable to take account of the specific corporate and governmental practices of major trading partners. The thesis analyses the utility and effect of neoliberal ideas on the conduct of Australia's international economic relations, with particular reference to Japan. Japan is Australia's principal trading partner, an important potential source of investment capital, and the dominant economic actor in a region with which Australian policy­ makers seek greater 'integration'. This important economic relationship provides an appropriate case study with which to test the efficacy of the neoliberal model and the assumptions that inform it.
    [Show full text]