CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING DISCLAIMER

While every care has been taken in preparing this publication, the Central Queensland Local Government Association (CQ Local Government Association) accepts no responsibility for decisions or actions taken as a result of any data, information, statement or advice, expressed or implied, contained herein. To the best of our knowledge the content was correct at the time of publishing. Any references to legislation are not an interpretation of the law.

All references are to be used as a guide only. The information in this publication is general and does not take into account individual circumstances or situations. Where appropriate, independent legal advice should be sought.

All maps are intended to represent general concepts for the purpose of broad-scale regional planning. These maps do not and are not intended to identify, or give attributes or rights, including land use use parcels. Boundaries and locations are indicative only, and may be subject to

While every care has been taken in preparing this publication the CQ Local Government Association does not guarantee, or make any representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the information shown on these maps, nor does it accept any responsibility or liability for any loss or damage arising from its use.

Local Government Association in order to inform and align the federal, state, and local government strategic planning agendas and regional policies.

It seeks to encourage but does not commit nor pertain to commit any government organisation, industry, or community organisation to implement, fund, or otherwise resource activities and programs.

the CQ Local Government Association with assistance from the Queensland Government, Australian Federal Government, business sector, and communities of the CQ Region.

The CQ Local Government Association supports the sharing of regional planning information, but only if it is recognised for the work and it remains unaltered.

Final Version Date: 30 November 2012

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2 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...... 4

FOREWORD ...... 5

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT ...... 6

INTRODUCTION ...... 9

SHARED REGIONAL STRATEGIC ISSUES ...... 12

THEME OVERVIEW...... 17

THEME: SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ...... 19

THEME: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ...... 27

THEME: REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES ...... 41

THEME: ENVIRONMENT ...... 55

THEME: SOCIAL WELLBEING...... 65

FOOTNOTES ...... 77 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

THE CQ LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK COLLABORATORS FROM THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS DOCUMENT.

• Australian Bureau of Statistics • Policy Performance Monitoring and Reporting • Banana Shire Council • Queensland Department of Local Government • BHP Billiton and Planning • BMA Coal • Queensland Department of Education and Training • Capricorn Enterprise • Central Highlands Regional Council • Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation • Central Highlands Development Corporation • Queensland Health • CQ Leagues Club • Queensland Police Service • CQUniversity • Queensland Treasury • Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research • Queensland Magnesia (QMAG) • Department of Regional Australia, Regional • QUT Development and Local Government • Queensland Department of Justice and • Economics Associates Attorney-General • Fitzroy Basin Association Inc • Queensland Department of Transport • Flinders Group and Main Roads • Gladstone Regional Council • Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority • Isaac Regional Council • Regional Economic Statistics • Infrastructure Australia • Regional Development Australia (Fitzroy and Central West Region) • National Institute of Economic and Industry Research • Rockhampton Regional Council • RSPCA • University of Adelaide • Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council

Special thanks to • Penelope-Jane Fry (engaged through Rockhampton Regional Council).

4 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING FOREWORD

As the heartland of the Resource Sector ‘boom’, CQ is experiencing measurable growth. CQ businesses and households are currently presented with unprecedented opportunities as the Region contributes to the growth of a nation.

speed economy hits hard within a regional setting. Strain on the Region’s infrastructure and services is clear as well as increased costs of living and tight competition for funds and projects.

During this fast and dynamic period, the CQ community and CQ Local Government Association recognise the need for clear direction and advocacy for the Region.

FUTURE FOUNDATIONS:

The nature of development and investment within CQ over the next decade will contribute to the community’s foundations for many years to come.

This is relevant to both the planning of hard and soft infrastructure as well as the implementation of community vision for the future of the Region.

These foundations are key to the Region’s future, liveability, environment, employment of services and infrastructure. These and clearly represented within relevant frameworks. This is what will enure the long- term viability of CQ communities beyond any ‘boom’ or ‘one factory town’ mentality.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 5 ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT THE CQ PROFILE DOCUMENT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WHAT IS THIS AS A WHOLE-OF- DOCUMENT FOR? CQ POSITIONING DOCUMENT. THIS IS NOT ABOUT REINVENTING THE WHEEL. It is a compilation of CQ relevant information sourced from multiple formats including policy documents, planning frameworks, community plans, statistics and various consultations.

Its intent is to collate regionally relevant data, This document was developed in collaboration planning and policy information sourced from all with and consideration of multiple stakeholders. levels of government and interest groups, with It is a composition of relevant information the shared vision and aspirations for CQ held by based on the clear mandate, that collaboration the wider community. is necessary for recognition of the unique challenges and shared opportunities presented within the CQ Region today.

Critical timing in policy, planning, reform and investment within all three levels of government led the CQ Local Government Association to develop and publish this document.

documents and highlights CQ issues and key priorities by tying together community vision with real planning and infrastructure needs. It assesses the current situation within CQ and puts forward a future needs analysis for the Region in regards to strategic vision, resource allocations and long term decision making.

investors and the public that the CQ Local Government Association member Councils and the CQ Region as a whole, know where the Region is headed, and how it intends to get there.

6 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING HOW WAS THIS DOCUMENT DEVELOPED?

FEDERAL POLICY AND PLANS STATE-WIDE POLICY AND PLANS

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AUSTRALIA ROADMAP CQ PROFILE PLANS (FCW) A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING

PRINCIPALS REGIONAL VISION

STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

SETTLEMENT AND SOCIAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT WELLBEING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT KEY SHARED REGIONAL ISSUES

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS

DELIVERY MECHANISMS

REGIONAL PLANS

ENVIRONMENT INTEGRATED SOCIAL AND AND NRM INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING SCHEMES CULTURAL PLANS PLANS AND PROJECTS PLANS AND PROJECTS AND PROJECTS

ENVIRONMENTAL LOCAL, STATE, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT WORKFORCE PLANS AND AND FEDERAL DEVELOPMENT STATEMENTS DEVELOPMENT AND PROJECTS OF GOVERNMENT PLANS AND AND MITIGATION SKILLING STRATEGIES HOUSEHOLDS AND CORPORATE AND PROJECTS /OFFSET BUSINESSES OPERATIONS PLANS

OTHER ACTIONS THROUGH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDS, INNOVATION, AND EFFORT

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 7 QUEENSLAND’S ENGINE ROOM - THE CQ REGION

8 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING INTRODUCTION

CQ IS THE SERVICE HUB OF QUEENSLAND. IT IS FEATURES OF CQ: HOME TO SOME OF • World class vocational and tertiary education facilities - in demand for leading industry and academic AUSTRALIA’S BEST research capacities, REGIONAL AIR, SEA, and heritage assets, • Diverse, innovative and creative business and community cultures RAIL, ROAD, WATER, with rich history and heritage, • One of the largest water catchments COMMUNICATIONS, in Australia, • Transport hub - superior connected gateways via air, rail, communications AND ENERGY and sea, • Internationally recognised liveability - with high diversity in distribution and INFRASTRUCTURE. style of housing and lifestyles, and

Positioned between mining and agricultural • Growing and evolving economy linked pursuits in the west and home to defence to export and domestic markets facilities and government directorates, CQ is - reinforced by the stability of long- linked to key export facilities and industrial standing public sector, defence, centres. It provides services, infrastructure, and and SME businesses. as national and international interests.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 9 PLANNING AREA

THE ‘CENTRAL QUEENSLAND’ PLANNING AREA ENCOMPASSES THE FOLLOWING LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS:

• Banana Shire Council • Central Highlands Regional Council • Gladstone Regional Council • Isaac Regional Council • Rockhampton Regional Council • Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council

ISAAC REGIONAL COUNCIL

ROCKHAMPTON REGIONAL COUNCIL

WOORABINDA ABORIGINAL CENTRAL HIGHLANDS SHIRE COUNCIL GLADSTONE REGIONAL COUNCIL REGIONAL COUNCIL

BANANA SHIRE COUNCIL

10 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING WHO LIVES HERE? GROWING PAINS:

The Region has a stable base of health, education, CQ enjoys a relaxed lifestyle yet challenges are retail and other industry and is home to increasingly evident as a result of pressure for approximately 252,4501 residents from a variety fast paced social, economic, environmental, of backgrounds (in 2011). This includes a diverse and governance change. This is the result of population of families, young people, workers, retirees, students and sea/tree changers. CQ the economy, rapid social transformations, is also home to a growing number of non- dynamic environmental pressures and changes permanent resident workers with their numbers in legislative obligations of government coupled increasing in the Isaac, Central Highlands, and Banana local government areas in 2011 to 19,800 is a far more complex regional situation in CQ up from 14,134 in 20102. These non-permanent than that experienced by other locations in the resident workers access local accommodation, Country.) infrastructure and other varied services. Growth in demand for future projects is also a demand seeing operations at Port Alma (Port facility) increase by 208% over a reportable INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY: period8. This growth fuels improvements in some infrastructure where Governments, community CQ’s skilled and diverse population is sustained members and the private sector combine to invest in crucial infrastructure, services, and land developments, yet timing is critical. economic activity in CQ are estimated to provide The pace of change requires a higher intensity the third highest contribution to Queensland’s overall employment growth (behind Brisbane the realities of real-time budgets and rational 3 and Moreton) . Local employment is timeframes. predominantly within the services industry, with the highest share of jobs provided in public services and trade services4. CQ is well known for mining industry employment opportunities yet manufacturing, construction and professional services industries also 5. Dominant occupations include clerical and administrative workers, labourers, and technicians and trade • The Australian Government recently workers6. raised $5.18 Billion in income tax from residents in CQ9.

• The Queensland Government’s budget payroll tax (2008-2011), $94.8 million LIFESTYLE: in land tax (2009-2011), and additional income from stamp duty generated CQ’s diverse lifestyle opportunities are scattered through over $3.69 billion worth of among open spaces of rural landscapes, real estate transactions in 2011. providing a welcome mix of urban and non-urban living. The Region incorporates multiple urban • Large numbers of real estate and and regional centres and includes city, acreage, business investors also rely on the coastal, waterfront, rural, worker’s camp, and Region for revenue and equity. village living. Most (85%) of the Region’s land use is primary production in rural landscapes dispersed amongst urban centres7.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 11 SHARED REGIONAL STRATEGIC ISSUES

SHARED REGIONAL STRATEGIC ISSUES HAVE A WIDE-RANGING IMPACT ON MULTIPLE ASPECTS OF CQ’S LIFESTYLE AND AMENITY. SHARED ISSUES UNDERPIN CHALLENGES AND/OR OPPORTUNITIES HIGHLIGHTED THROUGH THEMES INCLUDED IN THIS PROFILE. THEY REPRESENT THE COMMUNAL CONCERNS AND ASPIRATIONS OF CQ STAKEHOLDERS, AS PUT FORWARD IN COMMUNITY PLANS AND EVIDENCED THROUGH QUALITY DATA.

12 A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING EFFECTIVE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND RESPONSIVE CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

REGIONAL COLLABORATION

CQ Communities want to ‘be heard’. In a way that within CQ. CQ residents don’t want to be ignored or ‘managed’ by people in positions of trust and power. Rather they want to help third parties deliver projects and agendas that are compatible with widely shared community values. A GOOD STANDARD OF CQ is extensively represented by branches and INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES business associations; community organisations; Maintenance of and improvements to, the local and international charities; and local, state, federal, and multi-tier government organisations. and quality of infrastructure and services. Government departments (with the exception Governments, community and businesses are of the Department of Premier and Cabinet). A working to maintain quality infrastructure and range of Australian Government organisations services throughout CQ while ensuring diversity, are also present including the Department of adequacy and accessibility. However in some Education, Employment & Workplace Relations cases, communities in CQ are under serviced in (DEEWR), Regional Development Australia, regards to public health, sewage, water supply, Department of Defence, and Centrelink. These road maintenance and/or other services. agencies communicate with each other, the Infrastructure and services problems associated six local governments of CQ, organisations with the growth in CQ include: unforseen and people in the wider local, national, and usage demand and the outstripping of international community through both formal and informal mechanisms. un-viability; poor labour supply and labour retention issues (including housing availability professionals and stakeholders CQ collaborates extensively regarding strategic direction for density or scale. the Region. Community members contribute to multiple documents and programs under These challenges regarding services are resulting the banner of consultation and have built in a reduction in levels of service or loss of foundations for strategic infrastructure advocacy and further collaboration. The private sector is seizing Assessment of community vision statements and future priorities has made it clear that... publicly delivered infrastructure The CQ community seeks a more and services are lost or no longer task orientated results-focussed appropriate. This does not always approach to tackling its ‘key issues’. cater to demand capacity.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 13 RECOGNITION OF CQ AND ITS COMMUNITIES

The value, potential and contributions of CQ to the national and international community and economy is important. It warrants recognition in AN AFFORDABLE CQ the form of acknowledgement, opportunity to realise potential and contributions. place to live, work and do business for the Within CQ, locales, cultural groups, and other full diversity of business, government, forms of ‘communities of interest’ are visitors, and residents. individually worthy of acknowledgement, inclusion, and consideration. Simple recognition Local households and small business can such as installation of name signs for unsigned locales helps to provide a unique sense of infrastructure and services resulting from rapid identity and community. growth in industrial activity.

Adverse impacts upon CQ’s economy, Communities across CQ are facing challenges environment and society resulting from its rapid growth are not being recognised. These available housing and lifestyles. Fuel and retail prices, the need to wait or travel for specialist by reciprocal reinvestment by governments services (such as medical services) and housing in general, are especially important issues. the Region. Each locale’s housing needs are unique, with An inequity exists in this regard in some instances vital sub-markets of demand under stress. driving residents and small businesses of the Region to subsidise the accelerating costs There is a need for quality housing of these impacts on local infrastructure and in the lowest cost brackets. This services. CQ represents a nations growth being is important for some of the serviced through regional level infrastructure most vulnerable members of the and services. community. Appropriate and accessible housing for people with special mobility and other requirements in CQ. The Regions identity does not ascribe is also needed across a broader mix of income to administrative boundaries and maps of brackets and locations. government or industry. Many growth related factors contribute to these In some communities, declines in population and services are creating non-permanent residential workforces and rapid a ‘hollowing out’ of their economies. population growth.

14 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING CAPABLE, INFLUENTIAL, COLLABORATIVE AND CONNECTED REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEADERSHIP

Leadership is critical for promoting and protecting communities and their interests. It represents good value for money in delivery of programs and works, a better ability to plan and is easier to achieve goals over the long-term.

The underlying desire behind calls for capable, and local leadership is to help the community. are serviced and long term directions are viable and compatible with community values.

economy, rapid social transformations, dynamic environmental pressures, and changes in legislative obligations of government and other leaders are notable.

challenges to CQ than those being experienced by locations solely facing high population growth. Competing demands to simultaneously re-plan, re-coordinate, re-train, reform, and re- expand, and substitute infrastructure, services, and resources is a reality in CQ.

business. The pace of change requires higher the constraint of local budgets and resources.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 15 CENTRAL QUEENSLANDERS WANT TO BE HEARD.

They want their concerns and hopes for the future recognised, acted upon, and their values respected in the process. The following themes were developed by listening to the community, collating local information and extrapolating shared meaning and community priorities.

16 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING THEMES

KEY CHANGES AND PROTECTIONS ARE NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE FUTURE OF CQ. PRIORITIES ARE ORGANISED IN THE PROFILE BY KEY THEMES.

1. SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 4. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY CQ residents wish to see streamlined planning People in CQ wish to protect the environment and development processes to support the and see more education regarding sustainability. expansion of business, industry and the They would also like to see development community. Residents believe these changes and industrial sectors engaging in impact will help the Region to sustain a manageable minimisation as we move into a changing population. climate and environment.

2. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 5. SOCIAL WELLBEING CQ supports culture and heritage within economy focused on development and communities. Residents want to promote collaboration that promotes sustainable healthy, inclusive communities through employment for businesses large and small. education and ensure everyone has ready access to education and employment. The people of CQ want to feel safe in their homes and in the wider community. They value the contribution 3. REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE of volunteers and wish for others to share in The CQ Region wants quality planning, acknowledgement of their contributions. development and maintenance to improve community infrastructure such as waste and water facilities. They want improvements to transport in the Region as well as services for the vulnerable among the community, including the elderly and disabled.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 17 CQ’S LIVEABILITY MUST BE MAINTAINED AND IMPROVED THROUGH ACCELERATED UPGRADES, INVESTMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES.

The Region is an attractive place to live, work, Non-permanent residents have a direct play and invest and is home to approximately interest in the conditions of CQ. The Australian 252,450 people (2011)1 Government recently raised $5.18 billion9 in lifestyles including city, urban, suburban, income tax from residents; and the Queensland acreage, coastal, waterfront, rural, and village living. This mix scattered between large over $325 million in payroll tax (2008-2011), $94.8 and small communities spread throughout a million in land tax (2009-2011) and collected predominantly rural landscape. stamp duty generated from over $3.69 billion CQ is home to a growing number of non- worth of real estate transactions (2011). permanent resident workers with their numbers increasing in the Isaac, Central Highlands, and Large numbers of real estate and business Banana local government areas in 2011 to 19,800 investors rely on the Region for revenue 2 (up from 14,134 in 2010) . Non- permanent resident workers access local accommodation, investments in a diverse variety of land uses infrastructure and other services. including: commercial, residential, industrial, environmental conservation, recreation, retail, population and full-time equivalent population amenity and infrastructure investments. estimated resident population (2011) is 23,27710 Growth in settlement and development for people, with a ‘pre-boom’ projected population CQ is also indicated through its 9.8% share in 2042 estimated at 43,000 people. of Queensland’s building approvals for new houses in the four months to October, 2011. In 2011 the area is already accommodating The Regions population base of 5.47% of a full-time equivalent population of 43,000 Queensland entire population makes this people, providing services, infrastructure, and accommodation for a population not projected also holds 10% of Queensland’s tourist for 30 years to come. accommodation establishments.

18 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING THEME: SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

Streamlined planning and development reduction in red tape and development costs.

SHARED COMMUNITY Land use adapted to support the development and expansion of business, industry and the PRIORITIES IN SETTLEMENT AND with community values.

DEVELOPMENT A community that sustains a manageable population.

Key pressures on communities’ planning and development include:

• Uncertainty regarding the location and types of land uses and developments STREAMLINED required now and into the future;

• Resources industry impacted centres PLANNING AND appropriate housing in line with demand;

DEVELOPMENT • Pressures to fund and maintain additional (or PROCESSES FOR ALL supply industry, small business, and both resident and non-resident populations; LAND USES, TYPIFIED • Buildings and infrastructure experiencing reductions of budgeted asset life due to BY A REDUCTION IN higher than forecast use, wear and tear; • Government and developers under pressure to take on expanded roles and responsibilities RED TAPE AND in settlement and development planning and delivery, resulting in increased costs DEVELOPMENT COSTS and resource demands.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 19 COUNCILS ARE MAKING EFFORTS TO ENSURE FLOW-ON STIMULUS FROM ECONOMIC GROWTH IS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT CQ. INDUSTRIAL LAND EXPANSIONS MUST BE VIABLE AND EQUITABLE.

20 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING LAND USE ADAPTED TO SUPPORT THE Community planning concerns can be addressed by making collaborative DEVELOPMENT regional planning more accessible to the public. Inter-regional demand analysis and forward planning will AND EXPANSION OF show where risks can be avoided. BUSINESS, INDUSTRY Sometimes the needs and desired outcomes AND THE COMMUNITY, Retention of local character is an issue of particularly great concern within CQ. Industrial IN A WAY THAT AVOIDS plays out within the community.

Demand for industrial land has evolved in the CONFLICT WITH CQ Region. There are large inconsistencies in the current demand for land and the nature, COMMUNITY VALUES. location, and level of development of land. ‘Traditional’ places for industrial and commercial centres are experiencing varied market demand Pressures to adapt land uses are most situations. Some are over-crowded and others are experiencing vacancies or underdeveloped 1. Climate impacts create a need for the built potential. There are also multiple cases of environment to adapt for greater resilience industrial businesses being established on land and for future land use expectations to be not zoned for industrial purposes. tailored to better suit future hazards, and 2. Changes in the structure and nature of Threats to the viability of existing populations and economic activity create and proposed sites include: needs that do not necessarily match with existing land uses. • Pressures from encroachment of incompatible land uses, Fragmentation of activities (e.g. retail) is occurring • Initial costs of development/servicing, where existing clusters of zoned activity are • Constantly tightening planning-law ‘full’ and adjacent uses do not accommodate expansion. This puts a greater burden on infrastructure and service provision where • Uncertainty regarding key resource projects bulk changes are needed due to an inability to and related infrastructure development incrementally adapt and expand from existing timelines, and footprints. • Access constraints. Related concerns include: • acceptance of higher density housing in some locations, their areas so as to prevent their communities missing out on industrial job opportunities, • reassessment of infrastructure or engineering individual Councils are (in some instances) standards in light of constraints (imposed by re-zoning land and developing industrial areas infrastructure charge capping), and themselves.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 21 A COMMUNITY THAT SUSTAINS A MANAGEABLE POPULATION

The communities of CQ are growing in some areas and declining in others. Full-time-equivalent population ESTIMATING CHANGES IN FULL-TIME-EQUIVALENT use, services, and other issues. POPULATION IS CRUCIALLY undertaking ‘service population’ estimation IMPORTANT FOR through Census events. COMMUNITIES TRYING TO MANAGE POPULATION change in places such as CQ, and consider and compare estimates for related regions in Australia. CHANGES AND NEEDS. populations in Australian Local Government areas WORK IS OCCURRING TO is vital if tackling population issues in regional IMPROVE DATA COLLECTION population issues, high-change communities IN THIS REGARD (MORE IS are disadvantaged when: applying for funding; budgeting; setting infrastructure and other REQUIRED). charges; or requesting collaboration for action. The inclusion of a second residence element in the 2016 Census content would assist with this situation.

22 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING TABLE 1: SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS

ELEMENTS DESCRIPTION Current Benchmark Highlights Number (% of QLD) and Concerns

Estimated Population Projections for CQ 2011 2021 2031 Medium Population Projection 252,450 315,348 381,939 Percentage of Total Queensland Population 5.47% 5.64% 5.79%

Building Approvals (4 months to October 2011) New Houses (No. of Dwellings) 527 9.8% New Other Residential Building (No. of Dwellings) 249 7.0% Total Dwellings (No. of Dwellings) 776 8.6% Value of New Houses ($’000) $141,775 9.8% Value of New Other Residential Building ($’000) $43,931 5.9% Value of Alterations and Additions $14,965 3.0% to Residential Buildings ($’000) Value of Total Residential Building ($’000) $200,671 7.4% Value of Non-Residential Building ($’000) $118,093 6.6% Value of Total Building ($’000) $318,763 7.1% Total Replacement Value of $26,288 Residential Buildings (Millions)

Estimated value of construction in 2011 Residential (Value $million CVM $292 million per annum) Non Residential (Value $million CVM $289 million per annum)

Rental Housing Infrastructure (Bonds Held Dec 2011) Flat 6,074 House 15,730 Moveable 164 Townhouse 193 Other 370 Total 22,531

BUILDINGS AND CONTENTS Residential Number of Dwellings (as at 1st Dec 2011) 71,510 4.48% Number of Buildings (as at 1st Dec 2011) 66,972 4.85% Total Residential Footprint (m2) 12,391,095 m2 3.34% (as at 1st Dec 2011) Structural Value (2010) $22,531,440,000 3.9% Total Contents Value (2010) $9,237,400,000 3.9%

Commercial Number of Commercial Business Addresses 2,521 2.86% (as at 1st Dec 2011) Number of Commercial Buildings 2,229 6.76% (as at 1st Dec 2011) Total Commercial Building Footprint (m2) 1,816,720.65 m2 5.04% Structural Value (2010) $2,147,633,0000 4.93%

Industrial Number of Industrial Business Addresses 897 3.03% (as at 1st Dec 2011) Number of Industrial Buildings 888 3.25% (as at 1st Dec 2011) Total Industrial Building Footprint (m2) 1,251,384 m2 4.11% Structural Value (2010) $1,985,060,000 3.98%

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 23 TABLE 2: NUMBER AND VALUE OF REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TRANSACTIONS IN CQ (2008-2011) ($BILLION)

NON RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL CQ TOTAL YEAR RESIDENTIAL LAND WITH LAND NO ALL TYPES LAND CONCESSION CONCESSION Value Value Value Value Number ($Billion) Number ($Billion) Number ($Billion) Number ($Billion) 2008 611 $0.688 4,096 $1.215 1,888 $0.648 6,595 $2.552 2009 597 $0.635 5,601 $1.646 1,746 $0.640 7,944 $2.921 2010 589 $0.606 4,936 $1.456 1,985 $0.767 7,510 $2.829 2011 627 $0.878 4,871 $1.452 3,206 $1.363 8,704 $3.693

TABLE 3: CQ REAL ESTATE OWNERSHIP INTENSITY AS DEMONSTRATED BY LAND TAX STATISTICS

YEAR TAXABLE BP’S TAXABLE PARCELS ESTIMATED TAX 2009 13,754 12,973 $30,151,162 2010 13,914 13,139 $31,939,635 2011 13,472 12,647 $32,821,248

TABLE 4: TREND/SCALE FIRST HOME OWNER GRANT ACTIVITY IN CQ (2008-2011)

YEAR ESTABLISHED PROPERTY NEW HOUSING CQ FHOG TOTAL Number of Amount Number of Amount Number of Amount

Applications Paid Applications Paid Applications Paid 2008 1,146 $9,226,000 99 $1,309,000 1,282 $10,535,000 2009 1,508 $20,545,000 407 $10,437,000 2,037 $30,982,000 2010 727 $5,512,500 204 $4,935,000 1,014 $10,447,500 2011 925 $6,482,000 110 $1,623,000 1,088 $8,105,000

TABLE 5: CQ BUILDING BOOST GRANT TRANSACTION ACTIVITY (1 AUGUST 2011 – 30 APRIL 2012)

First Home Owner Investor Owner-Occupier All Applications 131 316 227 674

24 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING MAP 1: CQ ACTIVITY CENTRE NETWORK

Key ° !( Towns Reefs GBRMPA Mackay Whitsunday Regional Council Regional Council CQLGA Planning Area Charters Towers Regional Council Local Government Boundaries Waterbody

! Rivers GLENDEN Highways Major Roads

! NEBO !ILBILBIE

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CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 25 CQ HAS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES IN AUSTRALIA. IT IS HOME TO A DIVERSELY SKILLED POPULATION WITH 136,449 JOBS SUSTAINED BY NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES.

PEOPLE: CQ is recognised by the Federal Government as an “Innovation is estimated to provide the third highest Region” for investment priority by contribution to Queensland’s overall the Australian Government. employment growth (behind Brisbane and Moreton)3 years CQ residents paid over $5.18 billion9 in net personal income tax to the Australian Federal Government. The area contributes over $57 million per year to the Queensland Government sustained investment and returns as well as Improvement Fees. lenders and mortgage insurers. An average of 5.96 patent applications are lodged per capita Local employment is dominantly in the each year12. services industry, with the highest share of jobs provided in public services and trade Extractive industries include coal, magnesite, services4. CQ is well known for its mining nickel, limestone, salt, sandstone, silica sand, industry, manufacturing, construction and zeolite and precious stones. Liquid Natural service industries. It also provides significant Gas (LNG) and Coal Seam Gas (CSG) market contributions to local employment, economic and population growth5. situation.

Dominant occupations in CQ include clerical and CQ is an ideal location for businesses providing administrative workers, labourers, technicians goods and services to LNG and Queensland’s and trade workers6. There is strong growth premier coal basins, the Bowen Basin, Surat in consulting, logistics, medical and other Basin and Galilee Basin. professional services. The total annual personal income of residents is over $6.27 billion, with $5 TOURISM: billion from salaries and wages11. CQ is home to tourism attractions including BUSINESS: water recreation, scenic drives, tourist train services, boutique and chainstore retail and promotion of local operators to Australian attractions, markets, festivals, adventure and foreign markets. It houses local economic activities, culinary experiences and wellbeing promotion bodies and dedicated Trade services. These attractions are all supported by Queensland and AusTrade exporter services. a diversity of quality accommodation options13. 26 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING THEME: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

An economy steeped in elements of SHARED COMMUNITY development, leadership and collaboration, which recognises the social and environmental PRIORITIES FOR priorities of the community. OUR ECONOMIC An economic environment that is committed to DEVELOPMENT the ongoing development of the current economic contributors, but also attractive to those acting on term economic sustainability.

Sustainable employment through a combination of thriving local business as well as growth in new external business initiatives and employment programs that are accessible to people with unique needs.

Small business that can attract and retain required labour amidst the pressures of high growth.

An interconnected network of service hubs providing for a full spectrum of needs in CQ, wider QLD, and the world.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 27 A STRONG, DIVERSIFIED AN ECONOMY STEEPED TOURISM INDUSTRY IN ELEMENTS OF WHICH INCREASES DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC BENEFITS LEADERSHIP AND THROUGHOUT THE COLLABORATION, WHICH COMMUNITY RECOGNISES THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL Key international source markets for CQ include: Europe (UK and Germany), the United Kingdom, Germany and New Zealand. The longest PRIORITIES OF THE international stays coming from these markets, are from those visiting friends and/or relatives as well as business travellers. COMMUNITY

Key domestic source markets include: regional Queensland, Brisbane and New South Wales. communities across Australia yet the current conditions within CQ, contribute to the Regions of stay are less extreme but still highest for particular concerns. intra-state visitors to friends and/or relatives. This suggests that the business and personal Many activities in CQ trigger legislative powers relationships of CQ residents contribute and international corporate investments. In some markedly to its tourism revenue. instances wider state, national, or foreign interests are not required to recognise local environmental Of the 1,249,000 visitors to CQ in the year ended and social values. Recognition of local priorities is December 2010, intra-state visitors represented not always captured by alterations or cancellations of plans either. of visitors. The residual is split relatively evenly between inter-state (16%) and international (10%) visitors. Tourism in CQ is dominated by people communities presenting a grey area for who are conducting business visits or visiting friends collaboration. Increased transparency and local and/or relatives, motivating over 60% of visits in input are regarded as key to democratic corporate total. decision making.

28 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING The patchwork economy applies within CQ as it does to the rest of the nation. Wider state and national policy agendas aim to “spread the investment in the resources sector”. of local industrial growth is not tracking proportionately. AN ECONOMIC The need to address pressures on local infrastructure, services, and non-resources ENVIRONMENT THAT workers and businesses is now. IS COMMITTED Of the 76 funding contributions by the Department of Regional Australia in 2011, only two reinvested in the economy with the rest TO THE ONGOING investing in social infrastructure. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTORS, BUT NEW RESIDENTS New residents moving to CQ tend to be ALSO ATTRACTIVE professionals, tradespeople, and managers. Positive drivers for moving to the Region include work opportunities, proximity to family TO THOSE ACTING and friends, lifestyle attractions, industries (construction, manufacturing, education, mining, health and community services) and the lifestyle ON NEW GROWTH INITIATIVES AND of new residents expect to leave in the future. DIVERSIFICATION FOR • Drivers to leave: work, proximity to family and friends and time for a change, • Drivers to stay: work, stay close to family LONG-TERM ECONOMIC and friends, quality of lifestyle, and • Aspects liked least: not much to do, SUSTAINABILITY industry pollution and hot/humid weather.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 29 SMALL BUSINESS THAT CAN ATTRACT AND RETAIN REQUIRED SUSTAINABLE LABOUR AMIDST THE EMPLOYMENT THROUGH PRESSURES OF HIGH A COMBINATION OF GROWTH

THRIVING LOCAL Recent labour market conditions indicate that recruitment activity in the Region has been BUSINESS AS WELL vacancies with substantial skills gaps between employer expectations and the workers’ abilities AS GROWTH IN noted. NEW EXTERNAL Recruitment expectations are high, indicating that “as labour market conditions continue to strengthen, employers in the Region may face BUSINESS INITIATIVES Tight labour market conditions can create AND EMPLOYMENT lucrative opportunities for small business to provide services where labour supply is limited. These are not however always impact free. PROGRAMS THAT ARE Stakeholders have reported to Councils that small ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH UNIQUE NEEDS appropriate housing are cited as key problems. These types of pressures can undermine the viability of business to the point of closure, CQ is attracting unprecedented growth in industry even triggering a withdrawal from the town and business. These opportunities can have a and transfer of the business to a larger centre with a larger labour pool. Examples of owner- competition for services, labour, and land uses. their goods and services and work internally Communities express concerns regarding risks of impacts of these pressures could jeopardise a hollowing-out of the economy and instability diversity and access to goods and services within or unsustainability of local economies and CQ communities, impacting on the stability and employment ‘post-boom project’ milestones. viability of CQ towns.

30 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING AN INTERCONNECTED NETWORK OF SERVICE HUBS PROVIDING FOR A FULL SPECTRUM OF NEEDS IN CQ, WIDER QLD, AND THE WORLD

While the service hub model is considered inappropriate by most of CQ’s communities for pure service delivery, they express great support and concern regarding the supply-chain service hub network. Key issues in regards to this priority area include:

• logistics hubs and other improvements to service delivery productivity, • Addressing network vulnerabilities, including of crucial transport infrastructure) and inconsistencies in levels of service (e.g. telecommunications ‘dead zones’), and • Better linkages between land use and service hub network design, (especially for new land uses).

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 31 TABLE 6: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS

ELEMENTS DESCRIPTION Current Benchmark Highlights Number (% of QLD) and Concerns Across QLD Within CQ

Gross Regional Product 2010/11 Financial Year Headline $20549.75 million 8.16% of CQ contributes to GRP - Total Headline GRP at QLD’s GSP about 8.16% of Queensland’s Factor Cost (Level $m CVM) Gross State Product Labour Force Labour Force (Persons) 138,261 5.6% (QLD) % of population over the age of 15 in the Labour Force Labour Participation Rate 69.82% 66.6%(QLD) Australian Labour June 2009 Participation Rate is 64.7% Unemployment Rate (Sept 2011) 5.26% 5.5% (QLD)

Examples of the Magnitude of Tax Contributions Royalties (2010/11) $1.9 billion QLD Total CQ contributes about 71.72% $2.7 billion of Queensland’s royalties. Another $2 million per day again is forecast from LNG based on $500k per company per day by 2015 (Source – Santos CEO Mark Mcfarlane) Gambling Machine $59 million 7% of QLD’s There are 2,696 poker machines Tax Revenue Total Gambling (EGMs) operating in CQ. (Dec 2008 - Nov 2011) Machine Approximately $109.4 million Revenue flowed through the machines in November 2011 alone, and $10.94 million was lost by the punters in the month Royalties $1.935 billion Medicare Contributions from $88,886,798 6.16% of QLD CQ residents contribute over Personal Income Taxation Medicare Levy $89 million per year to the (2008/09) Revenue health system via medicare levy contributions alone

Registered Motor Vehicles - At 31st March Passenger Vehicles 113,753 4.7% Campervans 767 4.9% Light Commercial Vehicles 47,532 7.5% Light Rigid Trucks 1,927 6.3% % of QLD Heavy Rigid Trucks 5,821 8.3% Articulated Trucks 1,433 7.6% Non-Freight Carrying Trucks 337 5.7% Buses 1,321 5.7% Motorcycles 10,131 6.7% Total Registered Motor Vehicles 183,021 5.5%

Registered Motor Vehicles Rate Per 1,000 Population Passenger Vehicles 394 531 Campervans 0 29 Light Commercial Vehicles 186 140 Rate per 1,000 for QLD Light Rigid Trucks 8 7 Heavy Rigid Trucks 26 16 Articulated Trucks 7 4 Non-Freight Carrying Trucks 1 1 Buses 6 5 Motorcycles 37 33 Total Registered Motor Vehicles 668 741

32 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING TABLE 6: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS (CONTINUED)

ELEMENTS DESCRIPTION Current Benchmark Highlights Number (% of QLD) and Concerns Across QLD Within CQ

Tourist Accommodation Establishments Hotels, Motels, Serviced 50 12.3% Apartments - 5 to 14 rooms Hotels, Motels, Serviced Apartments - 118 10.3% 15 or more rooms Hotels, Motels, Serviced Apartments - 168 10.8% Total - 5 or more rooms Hotels - 15 or more rooms 19 10.2% Motels - 15 or more rooms 84 15.7% Serviced Apartments - 15 3.6% 15 or more rooms Caravan Parks 39 12.3% Holiday Flats and Units 0 0% Visitor Hostels 5 4.7% Total 498 10.0%

Domestic Overnight Visitors Tourism Domestic Overnight Visitor $603 $11,454 million Expenditure (09) million Number of Visitors (1000’s) 1,078 16,989 Visitor Nights (1000’s) 4,581 71,208 Expenditure per Visitor ($) $559 $691 Expenditure per Night ($) $132 $161 Average Length of Stay (Nights) 4 4 Domestic Day Visitors Tourism Domestic Overnight Visitor $185 $3,717 million Expenditure (2009) million Number of Visitors (1000’s) 1,645 34,705 Expenditure per Visitor ($) $112 $107 CQ Region ranked 17th in “Expenditure in Top 20 Tourism Regions” International Visitors Tourism Domestic Overnight Visitor $52 $3,780 million Expenditure (2009) million Number of Visitors (1000’s) 104 2,054 Visitor Nights (1000’s) 1,198 39,800 Expenditure per Visitor ($) $498 $1,840 Expenditure per Night ($) $43 $95 Average Length of Stay (Nights) 11 19 Tourism Visitors by purpose as at December 2010 Total Overnight Visitors (1000’s) 1,249 18,630 6.7% of QLD Visitors Domestic Visitors Holiday (1000’s) 34% 42% Visiting Friends and/or Relatives (1000’s) 28% 32% Business (1000’s) 32% 21% Total 1,124 16,582 6.8% of QLD Domestic Visitors Domestic Intrastate Visitors Holiday (1000’s) 29% 74% of Visitors to CQ were Intrastate Visitors. Visiting Friends and/or Relatives (1000’s) 30% Business (1000’s) 35% Total 930 Domestic Interstate Visitors CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 33 TABLE 6: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS (CONTINUED)

ELEMENTS DESCRIPTION Current Benchmark Highlights Number (% of QLD) and Concerns Across QLD Within CQ

Holiday (1000’s) 56% 16% of visitors to CQ were Interstate Visitors Total 194 Domestic Daytrip Visitors Total 1,844 34,705 5.3% of QLD Daytrip Visitors International Visitors Holiday (1000’s) 86% 70% 10% of visitors to CQ were International Visitors Visiting Friends and/or 10% 24% Relatives (1000’s) Business (1000’s) 5% 9% Total 125 2,048 6.1% of QLD International Visitors

Affordability Fuel Prices 104.55 3.7% At an average index of 103.1, fuel prices are 3.1% higher on average between CQ centres. All centres are consistently higher than in Brisbane Retail Prices Full Basket 103.1 3.1% At an average index of 103.1, (All items) retail prices are 3.1% higher on average between CQ centres. Biloela, Gladstone, and Rockhampton tend to be lower than Brisbane. Blackwater, Emerald, and Moranbah are much higher

34 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING TABLE 7: QUEENSLAND TREASURY ESTIMATES ON ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS (2011/12 FINANCIAL YEAR)

ELEMENTS DESCRIPTION 2011/12 2010/11 Notes, Highlights and Concerns

Fitzroy contributions to state employment growth in total and by industry Agriculture 6.01% 4.49% Third lowest contributor in QLD 11/12 Mining 29.16% 27.29% Second highest contributor in QLD (1st Mackay) 11/12 Manufacturing 25.85% 16.97% Second highest contributor in QLD (1st Brisbane) 11/12 Utility -0.58 14.69% Least contribution to employment Percentage growth in QLD, with QLD to grow by 0 Points percentage points overall in 2011/12 Construction 14.57% 10.35% Third highest in QLD (1st Brisbane, 2nd Moreton) 11/12 Services 6.8% 5.26% Third highest in QLD (1st Brisbane, 2nd Moreton) 11/12 Total Contribution to 12.64% 8.29% Queensland’s total forecast employment Queensland Employment growth is 3.25 basis points for 2011/12. Fitzroy Growth the third highest in QLD (1st Brisbane, 2nd Moreton) contributing 12.64% to that forecast growth. (Mackay is forecast to contribute 8%.) Industry contributions to local (Fitzroy Statistical Area) employment growth (percentage of overall percentage point growth) Agriculture 1.59% 0.92% Mining 16.07% 12.56% Manufacturing 11.92% 16.22% Utility - 1.48% 2.22% Construction 36.75% 28.76% Services 35.08% 39.62% Total Employment Growth 7.4% 5.0% (% Points) Employment by Industry (Persons ‘000s) Agriculture 5.4 5.2 Increasing mechanisation may reduce labour need Mining 11.0 9.7 Growth in both share and number employed Manufacturing 10.9 9.9 Steady in share Utility 2.0 2.1 Declining in both share and number employed Construction 16.7 13.7 Growing Services 72.7 69.8 Highest share is Public Services, Trade services is 2nd Total Employment 118.6 110.4 Overall number of persons employment is growing

TABLE 8: CQ BUILDING BOOST GRANT TRANSACTION ACTIVITY (1 AUGUST 2011 – 30 APRIL 2012)

YEAR PRIMARY TAX NUMBER OF BUSINESSES 2008 $45,313,494 313 2009 $67,255,298 523 2010 $97,462,597 477 2011 $115,053,153 4,693

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LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS DEPEND ON CQ’S INFRASTRUCTURE

Demands from rapid industrial Hard infrastructure is complemented by a local growth and strong full-time- workforce with high concentrations of specialist expertise in logistics, engineering, commerce, equivalent population growth trade skills, project management and planning. mandate improvements. National and international transport linkages This infrastructure connects and supports CQ’s provide direct access to Queensland’s network of service hubs, that supply local needs largest port gateways including facilities in Mackay, Gladstone and Port Alma (including Queensland’s largest multi-commodity port This service-hub role is supported by some of Australia’s best regional air, sea, rail, road, water, including: bulk and fuel-loading infrastructure, communications, pipeline, waste, energy, and dedicated container terminals, liquid cargos and social infrastructure. gas and coal seam gas industries.

Quality planning, development and maintenance to deliver community infrastructure needs.

Development and maintenance of waste and SHARED COMMUNITY water facilities and quality, and education PRIORITIES IN REGIONAL and awareness programs. To target waste minimisation and prevent reliance on purely INFRASTRUCTURE fee-based strategies. SERVICES An appropriate standard of transport networks, and where wider system impacts are checked before investments made.

Infrastructure and services that cater for our most vulnerable, including our ageing population.

Active transport support for all, including people with unique mobility requirements.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 41 Later priorities address these infrastructure types in detail. This theme overview comments on the condition of key infrastructure types and pressures recognised through the community priorities and planning.

Key concerns indicated by shared community priorities include:

• The standard of existing infrastructure and its maintenance is falling short with increased pressure through population and economic growth. CQ communities perceive that the contribution of CQ to industry and wider in reinvestment to maintain and develop stressed infrastructure. Households cannot subsidise these cost impacts. QUALITY PLANNING, • reform and substitution of infrastructure is currently needed for the CQ community. This DEVELOPMENT AND will help it to adjust at pace with the current dynamic nature of the economy in regards to: contemporary standards, current needs (e.g. MAINTENANCE TO new industries), and ensuring the community isn’t excluded from adopting emerging DELIVER COMMUNITY lifestyle and business opportunities. • Infrastructure is not optimised in terms of seamless integration between: types, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS communities, and land uses. • Signage is not adequate for community infrastructure types: and natural disaster events. • ‘Best practice’ systems need to be put in 1. Utility infrastructure, place for management and coordination of 2. Transport infrastructure (moving people, goods, and services), and within the wider economic, social, and 3. Social infrastructure. environmental context.

42 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY SERVICE OBLIGATION IN WATER STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE AGREEMENTS, FOR EMERGENCY DOMESTIC SUPPLY RESERVES.

Operators will not build unless the full volume is accounted for, as to exclude a reserve for use in an emergency. A reserve could be established for which temporary licences would be sold during times of good supply, so as to ensure the water may be allocated to highest and best use when not needed to supplement reticulated supply.

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is required for ‘brown water’ supply FACILITIES AND QUALITY, reticulation networks. • Measures are needed to ensure only COMMUNITY EDUCATION optimum use of high-priority water (e.g. not used for toilets). • Currently new homes have water tanks AND AWARENESS plumbed in but rainfall is highly unreliable. Storm water is a better source for non-priority PROGRAMS. TO TARGET water. The water supply would need to be augmented and supplemented if storm water is to used. WASTE MINIMISATION • The CQ Water Supply Strategy recommendations remain relevant, in the AND PREVENT RELIANCE through CQ received of ample supply of for CQ continues to be a critical risk issue ON PURELY FEE-BASED that escalates with population and economic growth. STRATEGIES • Communities struggle to obtain extra water allocations due to competition from industry. During times of drought, communities compete for allocations. If resource industry self-containment was mandatory this WATER these communities are concerned with • Inter-regional water sharing has great water courses. costs and barriers to this opportunity for both • Reliance on surface water from the Fitzroy the public and private sectors. Basin is sound but is a recognised point of • vulnerability. There are pressures on the quality within the Region but ‘postage stamp’ price of this water, with instances of high salinity. smoothing is needed for water sharing to • Underground water is good in CQ but be viable. Price smoothing is unviable until sustained drought can cause stress. connections are made. Uncertainty is high regarding vulnerability • Improvements are needed for supply of this source. and demand interventions in the face of • There is a need to diversify supply projected and current population pressures or protect water. and variability in rainfall. • Carbon and energy cost escalation puts • Stormwater harvesting and recycling: additional pressure on the costs of water transport.

44 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING WASTE

Most waste infrastructure services within CQ are managed and/or delivered by local government. The service provision role of the private sector is increasing in relation to recycling and business largely delivered by local government and is under pressure from both demand and the cost impacts of regulatory changes.

Current issues of contention regarding waste management in CQ focus around three key elements:

• A lack of markets for recovered materials, • Policy decisions regarding the public and private management of waste resources, and • meet demand both now and in the future.

Barriers to improvement of waste management in CQ include: ENERGY

• Distance, associated National Electricity Market (NEM) • The costs of infrastructure, distribution infrastructure. This includes: • Lack of space for facilities, Callide A, B and C, Gladstone and Stanwell • current environmental regulations and megawatts (MW) production. legislation, • Rationalisation of waste infrastructure facilitation between various regions, and of Queensland’s generation capacity of approximately 13,500MW. CQ has the potential • Increasingly strict environmental controls. to house additional coal, gas and other forms of energy generation infrastructure. The Region is The CQ Local Government Association makes a home to a large volume of energy sector skilled labour and commercial quality conditions for education in the Region. The organisation wind, solar, geothermal, wave and gas energy coordinates recycling programs with school generation developments. Additional demand children, works with local businesses to management, pricing reforms and investments reduce waste and also collaborates on waste in energy transmission to local business and management policy development with Councils households will require more investment to and other professional organisations. improve the reliability of supply.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 45 HIGHWAYS

CQ has a unique situation with growing numbers of oversize loads reducing the asset life of its highways. This growth also disrupts regular freight and incites un-safe driving behaviours.

Most of the challenges experienced on the Bruce Highway are shared by other major road AN APPROPRIATE connections in CQ. These challenges include: • Growth in travel and freight movement, STANDARD OF • Increased freight and long haul passenger movement along the highway corridor, TRANSPORT NETWORKS, • Increased connections to bring resources to coastal markets and ports with additional WHERE HOTSPOTS THAT • Flooding: which regularly closes highways in DECREASE EFFICIENCY delays to passenger and freight travel with no viable alternative, • ARE FIXED, AND WHERE using two-lane carriageways and mixing of WIDER SYSTEM IMPACTS • through and around major regional centres to ARE CHECKED BEFORE • Maintenance of ageing road, bridge and culvert infrastructure and the urgent need INVESTMENTS MADE. for asset renewal.

46 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING SHORT TERM PRESSURES

The pace of change in CQ puts pressure on decision making to deliver reactive infrastructure solutions to meet immediate local needs. Impacts are felt on long-term planning and strategy as a result including in regards to productivity,

INFRASTRUCTURE FREIGHT PRODUCTIVITY

LOCKING OUT OPTIONS Freight productivity can be improved through multi-modal freight management. Road, port and Decisions regarding future infrastructure need rail transition and logistical reforms contribute to consider their potential for impact upon new to national transport agendas but are mostly industries and business types that operate with unsuitable within CQ due to its geography smaller economies (of scale or density) within the and economy. This is largely due to freight slower industries of the 2-speed economy. movements in CQ travelling west to the coast for export, not equally dispersed both directions. Examples include the need for the continued availability and suitability of infrastructure for Extensive demand exists for rail access for non- businesses such as agriculture, tourism, community services (e.g. rubbish), and small business. regime, pricing and reported capacity constraints with existing infrastructure exist. The extent the liveability of communities can also have social and productivity reforms are being undertaken and economic impacts (e.g. inability to source or developed within existing infrastructure and retain labour). networks is unclear.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 47 INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES THAT CATER FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE, INCLUDING OUR AGEING POPULATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Broadband services such as Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL, SDSL, HDSL, and VDSL), Satellite, Wireless, and Fibre are available in CQ. Mobile telecommunications and broadband services include 4G, 3G, NextG, Satellite, and GSM with HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE GPRS. The continuity and spread of service extremely unreliable when moving between having maternity facilities (one each in Gladstone centres in CQ. and Rockhampton). The public health system provides the following: Reliability of connectivity is vital for business and residents within CQ, sometimes even a • Hospitals at: Baralaba, Biloela, Blackwater, life and death consideration. Road network Emerald, Gladstone, Moura, Mount Morgan, ‘communications dead zones’ present dangers. Rockhampton and Yeppoon, When accidents occur in one of the many • Multipurpose Health Services: Springsure, communications dead zones along national Theodore and Woorabinda, highways residents are unable to call, email, or text for help. This is an issue even on major • Community Health: Biloela, Emerald, Gladstone, road networks. Mount Morgan, Rockhampton and Yeppoon, • Primary Health Care: Boyne Valley, Adoption of technology is high, but potential • Oral Health: Biloela, Emerald, Gladstone, uptake is frustrated by unreliability of service Rockhampton and Yeppoon, • Mental Health: Emerald, Gladstone, Rockhampton and Yeppoon, and Improvements to the reliability of • Residential & Aged Care: Yeppoon Nursing broadband and mobile coverage Home (Gertrude E Moore Nursing Home), across CQ is an urgent priority. North Rockhampton Nursing Centre, Eventide Home, and Birribi (Residential . Intellectually Disabled Facility).

48 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING ACTIVE TRANSPORT SUPPORT FOR ALL, INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH UNIQUE MOBILITY REQUIREMENTS REPOSITIONING CQ’S AIRPORTS

CQ’s public and privately owned airports are well distributed throughout the Region. Together, CQ’s airports provide a high level of multi-type service to more than a million passengers each year. International heavy-lift air freight capabilities, charters, services to the defence forces (of three nations), training and extensive domestic passenger and freight from small passenger planes through to unrestricted wide-bodied aircraft (including the B747 to B777 and A340 types).

There are opportunities to better embed the role of airports into wider infrastructure systems and land uses so as to reinforce their role within CQ and the wider national market. Inter-modal transport and aero service hub developments are part of the future for CQ airports.

Legal avenues of collaboration between Airports also presents opportunities for independent facilities to support each other in specialisation and avoid diluting CQ’s viability for services in niche markets.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 49 FIGURE 1: FATAL AND SERIOUSLY INJURED CRASHES ALONG THE BRUCE HIGHWAY (OCT 2004-SEPT 2009)

FIGURE 1: FATAL AND SERIOUSLY INJURED CRASHES ALONG THE BRUCE HIGHWAY (OCT 2004-SEPT 2009)

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CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 53 54 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING THEME: ENVIRONMENT CQ IS A SPECTACULAR PART OF AUSTRALIA WITH UNIQUE AND VARIED LANDSCAPES FULL OF REAL CHARACTER.

CQ’s communities are connected by the • The Bridled Nailtail Wallaby, extensive Fitzroy River catchment, the second largest river catchment in Australia. The Fitzroy • Fitzroy River Turtle, • Kroombit Tinkerfrog, reports directly to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. • A type of rare Cycad, and • The Belyando Cobbler’s Peg. wetlands of Shoalwater and Corio Bays and area, Important protected areas and habitats exist the Keppel and Capricorn Bunker island groups within the Region and are recognised for their which host diverse reef communities that conservation value, including Brigalow, semi- evergreenvine thickets, beach scrubs, serpentine CQ is home to three bioregions: the Brigalow undertaken to support the ongoing health of these Belt, parts of the Southeast Queensland ecosystems, including biodiversity stewardships, bioregion and the CQ Coast bioregion. The gazettal of Nature Refuges, and educational Region provides important habitat to more projects on publicly managed land. This aims to than 800 animal species and over 3,500 ensure both conservation and production values terrestrial plant species, including iconic and can be maintained in these habitats, especially threatened species: native grasslands.

Monitoring, protection and preservation for

Community education regarding environmental SHARED COMMUNITY sustainability. PRIORITIES FOR OUR A development and industrial sector that ENVIRONMENT seeks environmental improvement and impact minimisation, while remaining economically viable.

To adapt and innovate as we face a challenging and changing climate.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 55 ENCROACHMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND DEVELOPER ACTIVITIES ON AREAS OF ECOLOGICAL, AMENITY, CULTURAL, HERITAGE OR RECREATIONAL VALUE IS OF CONCERN TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES. IN PARTICULAR, THERE IS CONCERN ABOUT THE

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS Environmental monitoring, protection and OF INDUSTRIAL AND the private sector, public sector and wider DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY community within CQ. ON THE ENVIRONMENT. In 2011 CQ communities were concerned with water quality and encroachment of industrial and developer activities on natural and rural areas.

Water quality concerns recently related to salinity and wider uncertainty regarding causes of water quality problems in the Fitzroy basin, fuelled by

Although rising groundwater resulting from several consecutive wet years was found to have caused elevated salinity, the community MONITORING, expressed uncertainty and concern regarding discharges of water from heavy industry upstream. In 2011, the Gladstone Harbour PROTECTION AND “experienced a number of abnormal occurrences PRESERVATION including symptoms such as cloudy eyes, skin discolouration and lesions. Some commercial FOR AREAS OF illnesses may be related to the water quality ENVIRONMENTAL underway in 2011 to reassure the community, SIGNIFICANCE these events create unease.

56 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING A DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION REGARDING SECTOR THAT SEEKS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IMPROVEMENT AND sustainability are rolling out in schools, homes, IMPACT MINIMISATION, via media and in workplaces throughout CQ. Programs include general environmental stewardship, ecological rehabilitation, waste/litter WHILE REMAINING and recycling. CQ is home to the Camp Fairbairn Outdoor Education Centre, North Keppel Island Environmental Education Centre and the Boyne ECONOMICALLY VIABLE Island Environmental Education Centre of the Department of Education and Training. The CQ community is pragmatic regarding environmental impacts on the whole, but CQ University provides formal education unnecessary impacts and breaches of legislation in environmental science via the Centre are of great concern. for Environmental Management and other Communities value innovation and modernisation in industry, business and land use developments, Recycling has good awareness and participation that contribute to economic growth without levels in CQ with 1432.95 tonnes of waste creating comparable declines in environmental recycled in October 2011. The community and social conditions at a similar rate. Unique considers education important to address points of tension in 2011 relate to CSG, and damaging behaviours such as illegal dumping transport vectors of resource industries (gas, coal of domestic, hazardous and business waste in and competing land uses) as well as the impacts waterways and other natural environments. of port expansions and coastal developments.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 57 58 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING TO ADAPT AND INNOVATE AS WE FACE A CHALLENGING AND CHANGING CLIMATE

impact on people, land and marine ecosystems, animals, infrastructure, and settlements. Its residents faced a time of grief and recovery after early 2011. The communities of CQ are seeking management and informing of decisions so as not to exacerbate problems (e.g. reductions to carbon pollution and infrastructure built so as people (current and future), settlements, infrastructure, and leadership mechanisms to current and future climatic conditions and events.

The capacity of the community to fund these costs amidst ongoing repairs is limited.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 59 TABLE 9: ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS

Elements Description Current Benchmark Highlights Number (CQ) (QLD wide) and Concerns

Climate BUA Emissions 75 Mt CO2-e N/A Current Emissions Sustainable Landscapes Regional Land Use (2009) Conservation and Natural 7% 8% CQ has less than average volume Environments of areas within conservation and natural environments Intensive Uses 1% 1% Production Dry-Land 5% 2% Agriculture and Plantations Production Irrigated 1% 1% Agriculture and Plantations Production Relatively Natural 85% 88% Environments Water 1% 1% Total (km2) 175,872 km2 1,727,508 km2 Cropping Land (Grains) 85% Not Available There is 20,211km2 of strategic Managed Using Cutting Edge cropping land in CQ, which /Best Practice. represents 26.71% of the strategic cropping land of QLD Grazing Land Managed Using 53% 50% 64,427km2 of grazing land in Cutting Edge/Best Practice CQ managed by 1881 graziers Horticulture Land Managed 54% (33 km2) 62% There are 57 horticulture Using Cutting Edge/Best producers in CQ Practice Mean Dry Season Ground 83% Not Available N.B. 50% ground cover is reef Cover (at 2009) on Grazing catchment standard Lands Salinity Affected Land Area 0.13% 0.62% 22 km2 of the total 176,682.9 km2 CQ area Barriers to Fish Passage 10,000 (approx.) Not Available Nature Conservation Species Conservation Status (QLD NCA) 2010 Common 3,547 Fitzroy Basin Association Planning Area Near Threatened 1 Rare 70 Vulnerable 70 Endangered 29 Presumed Extinct 3 Species Conservation Status (Commonwealth EPBC) 2010 Vulnerable 62 Fitzroy Basin Association Planning Area Endangered 19 Critically Endangered 2 Extinct 1

60 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING TABLE 9: ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS (CONTINUED)

Elements Description Current Benchmark Highlights Number (CQ) (QLD wide) and Concerns

Ecosystem Conservation Status (Rem Veg) 2011 Not of Concern 52,661 km2 CQLGA Planning Area Of Concern (Dominant) 10,447 km2 Of Concern (Sub-dominant) 7,642 km2 Endangered (Dominant) 4,065 km2 Endangered (Sub-dominant) 4,353 km2 Total 79,168 km2 High Value Regrowth 2011 Not of Concern 1,941 km2 CQLGA Planning Area Of Concern (Dominant) 771 km2 Of Concern (Subdominant) 4,447 km2 Endangered (Dominant) 2,142 km2 Endangered (Sub-dominant) 1,076 km2 Total 10,376 km2 Regional Habitat Corridors Local (2008) 6,180 km2 Regional (2007) 13,424 km2 State (2005) 61,436 km2 Habitat for State EVR Taxa 771 km2 (2007) Protected Areas (2011) National Park 115,841 km2 National Park (Scientific) 1,284 km2 National Park (Recovery) 746 km2 Conservation Park 474 km2 State Forest 120,891 km2 Forest Reserve 9,007 km2 Timber Reserve 578 km2 Resources Reserve 1,186 km2 No Category 936 km2 Waterways and Wetlands Riparian Area % of Riparian Zone that is 71% 78% N.B. 18,816 km2 of QLD’s reef Vegetated catchment riparian area in total Area of Vegetated Riparian 127 km2 295 km2 43% of QLD’s Reef Catchment Zone Lost 2004 - 2008 riparian zone loss was in CQ Wetlands Extent (as at 2005) % Wetlands Remaining from 83% N.B. There is 2,183 km2 Pre-European Times of wetlands (2005) Area of Wetlands Loss 3 km2 Between 2001 and 2005

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 61 TABLE 9: ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS (CONTINUED)

Elements Description Current Benchmark Highlights Number (CQ) (QLD wide) and Concerns

Surface Water Quality (Fitzroy Basin Association Area) (2007) Total Suspended Solids 2,850 14,101 CQ: 20.21% of the total (Ktonnes/yr) Anthropogenic Total Suspended Sediment 3,400,000t 51% The benchmark is the CQ Pollutants Flowing to Reef pollutant load as a percentage per Year of the total pollutant load Nitrogen Pollutant 13,000t 78% Flowing to Reef per Year Phosphorus Pollutant 3,500t 83% Flowing to Reef per Year Marine Water Quality 65 56 CQ has a better score than [Wq Index (Scores out of 100)] the Great Barrier Reef Catchment overall Seagrass Beds 51 47 CQ has a better score than (Score out of 100) the Great Barrier Reef Catchment overall Coral (Score out of 100) 40 46 CQ has a lower score than the Great Barrier Reef Catchment overall Indigenous Cultural Heritage Sites Places of Indigenous 36,000 Cultural Heritage

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CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 63 CQ SOCIETY INCLUDES PEOPLE FROM A RANGE OF COMMUNITIES WITH LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND LINKS TO RICH AND DIVERSE VARIETY OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE. THIS DIVERSITY IS A CENTRAL FEATURE TO HOW PEOPLE IDENTIFY WITH THE CONCEPT OF LIVING WITHIN A BROADER “CQ”.

People of CQ are active in improving their lifestyle Schools are important features for identity and social connections, building a sense of and for drawing together from surrounding identity and community pride, being active and areas. They by provide venues for face-to-face healthy, and preserving and developing culture activities by school families and the wider and heritage. Communities in CQ have an intense community. sense of identity. A drive through a rural locale might indicate no main street, but there will be The CQ community is generous, giving volunteer dance gatherings, sports, arts activities and craft time and other contributions to the local and meet-ups and a myriad of things that make up a wider community. CQ Residents personally communities identity. gifted or donated more than $9.26 million to The built and natural environment of CQ year. provides a good framework for social interaction In 2011, some communities experienced Each locale centre in CQ provides parks, population decline and associated issues. community halls, libraries, homes, galleries, and Others were striving to hold together social other places within which people connect. Local identity while accommodating a additional full- leaders and identities provide a catalyst for time and part-time residents. These underlying social development. While digital and telephone services help people connect, value face-to-face community priorities, as people strive to protect interaction for social wellbeing. and enhance the cultured, healthy, safe, skilled, and caring natures of their communities. Transport is important as people travel many hundreds of kilometres to participate in sports, visit others socially, contribute to events, attend to their health, work, and volunteer.

64 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING THEME: SOCIAL WELLBEING

Community support, value, facilitation and celebration of cultural activities and our diverse heritage.

Healthy environments through community education programs addressing issues such as SHARED COMMUNITY while providing access to appropriate services PRIORITIES FOR OUR encompassing elements of hospital, general SOCIAL WELLBEING practice, allied, mental and indigenous health.

Community value placed on the social components of cohesion, inclusion and equality.

All forms of education from early childhood to lifelong education, supported, encouraged and enabled by all

Established innovative partnerships to ensure education access and improve the connection between education and genuine employment opportunities.

To feel safe in our homes, workplaces and public areas.

Acknowledgement for the value of work volunteers do for

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 65 COMMUNITY SUPPORT, VALUE, FACILITATION volume and richness of culture and heritage AND CELEBRATION OF in CQ in 2011 and whole-of-region statistics CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND provides contextual commentary on the shared challenges facing three key local passions within this priority area: OUR DIVERSE HERITAGE • Place-based heritage, • Arts, and CQ’s cultural identity is made up of places, • Indigenous culture and heritage. residents are as individuals and as communities. The preservation and development of Aboriginal It is home to a rich tapestry of diverse and Torres Strait Islander Culture is an issue of cultures and heritage, including over 30% of importance to CQ’s people. CQ’s communities Queensland’s registered places of Indigenous are concerned about what will be lost when the Cultural Heritage and 131 places on the elderly are no longer able to participate and Queensland Heritage Register. share knowledge and skills. Local community support for historical societies and programs An extensive range of people, cultural centres, such as the ‘Embedding Aboriginal and Torres natural places, libraries, markets, theatres, Strait Islander Perspectives in Schools’ initiatives art galleries, and private homes are central to activities in this space. Major national Culture and heritage largely rely on community, exhibitions, eminent people and artists visit the private sector and local government area. CQ people, works, histories, and places contributions. Volunteer availability is vital and are also recognised and featured in wider state, national, and international culture and heritage is another concern, especially regarding the communities. maintenance required to preserve places of importance. Repairs to heritage listed buildings The communities of CQ want to maintain are an example of this. Funding support from activities in arts and culture. They want to: traditional sources is highly variable. In terms of the Arts, for example, there were no Australia • Council Grants provided to CQ residents in 2011 dedicated to culture and heritage, but $199,759 was awarded by the Regional • Pass knowledge and enthusiasm on to Arts Development Fund in 2011. No National younger and new members of the community Trust properties are established in CQ. Only and one Federal Government “Indigenous Heritage • Create new connections between places and Program” grant was awarded in CQ in the 2010-11

66 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH COMMUNITY

EDUCATION PROGRAMS Many locations and health-need groups (especially the aged and mothers) in CQ consider current ADDRESSING ISSUES levels of service and accessibility of health facilities and services inadequate. The hub-based delivery model is cited as causing patients to SUCH AS HEALTH travel great distances to access services, creating barriers to accesability and discouraging people AND FITNESS, from engagement in the public health system. While general health services are considered PREGNANCY, DRUGS good (especially the quality of local GPs and nurses) access to specialist services often requires travel to Brisbane or other locations. AND HYGIENE, WHILE Despite more than 3,000 medical workers being based in CQ, most public cataract surgery PROVIDING ACCESS TO for surgery and follow-up checks. This adds expense and stress to an already anxious APPROPRIATE SERVICES situation.

Such gaps in services present opportunities for ENCOMPASSING restoration or introduction of local services with public and private sector mobile service ELEMENTS OF HOSPITAL, are about 200.4 health care workers per 10,000 residents in CQ, which is below the Australian GENERAL PRACTICE, average of 284. CQ residents draw upon medical than the Australian average. Recent evidence ALLIED, MENTAL AND indicates that CQ residents contribute about $88.8 million to Medicare through their INDIGENOUS HEALTH personal income tax contributions.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 67 ALL FORMS OF EDUCATION FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD TO LIFELONG EDUCATION, SUPPORTED, ENCOURAGED AND COMMUNITY VALUE ENABLED BY ALL PLACED ON THE SOCIAL INFLUENCERS FOR A COMPONENTS OF SKILLED COMMUNITY COHESION, INCLUSION In 2011 41,838 students were enrolled full time in CQ’s public and private schools. Of these 70% AND EQUALITY were in public schools and 30% were in private schools. Schools in CQ service other parts of Much of Australia is concerned about sustainable Queensland and beyond, providing boarding population growth, including how to cope with schools and distance education. The Capricornia an ageing population. CQ is a contradiction within School of Distance Education is a vital public this concern. school for CQ. The region provides distance education to over 260 students (prep to year In some places declines in population growth are jeopardising the viability of schools and other where students can visit to interact in person services. through the twin campus’ of Rockhampton and Emerald. While technology can aid in the delivery In other places unprecedented growth in of distance education our communities consider economic activity is creating extremely fast full- the protection, maintenance, and enhancements time-equivalent population growth. The resources of local school facilities to be a priority now and boom and growth in other industries (health, for the future. academic, public sector, and manufacturing) is drawing in workers from other parts of Australia School closures and public school amalgamations and the world. This adds to the tapestry of are seen to go against community priorities. While culture of communities of CQ. It can destabilise 2,473 students were in Year Two in 2011, 3,556 the cohesion of communities and create points students were in Preperatory year – indicating a potential swelling of the volume of Year Two into points of exclusion and perceived or students within the primary school system with actual inequality. While CQ has a relatively 1,083 more students by the start of the 2013 school year. This excludes any population growth CQ with ageing population issues of concern in factors and is symptomatic of growing needs in smaller centres and areas of CQ that depend on school-based education within CQ. Vocational and volunteers (e.g. volunteer emergency and social other skilling is also a priority to communities for services). all age groups.

68 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING ESTABLISHED INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS TO ENSURE EDUCATION ACCESS AND IMPROVE TO FEEL SAFE IN OUR THE CONNECTION HOMES, WORKPLACES BETWEEN EDUCATION AND PUBLIC AREAS AND GENUINE antisocial behaviours, and workplace safety are EMPLOYMENT key concerns for CQ residents.

OPPORTUNITIES in 2011 especially ‘crimes against the person’. Recent university participation is evident with 6% between 2009/10 and 2010/11 in line with 3,404 residents in possession of a HELP debt. state trends but were 6.27% higher per 100,000 There were 16,072 students enrolled in publicly population than the overall Queensland rate. funded vocational education and training Murders were 54% higher and other forms of homicide were 78.57% higher than the whole of largest volume of enrolments were in General Queensland rate. Breaches of domestic violence Education and Training (2,173), Business (1,962), and Engineering (1,724). Close behind followed normal at 42.75% (higher than the Queensland Construction (1,309), Hospitality (1,319), Electro- technology (832), Mining (826), and Automotive (781) enrolments. Of the enrolments 19% are higher at 3.43% (above the Queensland rate). for students aged between one and 17 years of Robbery, however, was 49% lower than the age and 9.7% are over 50 years of age. whole of Queensland rate. Kidnapping and abductions were 35.48% lower too. Unlawful This participation is well aligned with job opportunities that the Regions economy presents and the age diversity is consistent with than Queensland rates. good access to vocational training opportunities overall. Governments and the community have been working to change the built environment (e.g. People with unique cultural and place-based good lighting in public places) and associated needs do not have access to appropriate skilling infrastructure (e.g. CCTV) in order to address data indicates that wider social pressures, rather and steps are being taken to tailor methods of than physical environment, is a key challenge delivery and accessibility, as some impediments facing this aspect of CQ’s social wellbeing to access remain. priorities in 2011.

CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING 69 70 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING Workplace health and safety in all industries is important to CQ residents. In 2011, work place safety programs were highly promoted and supported within CQ, especially ‘zero harm’ initiatives. Construction and manufacturing within CQ and are highly correlated with workplace education in proportion to their high- risk. These industries had the highest proportion of health and safety ‘reactive event investigations’ of all industries across Queensland in 2011.

As the Region’s workplace safety agenda ACKNOWLEDGEMENT matures in regards to physical safety, emphasis is expanding to address mental health issues. This includes bullying and anti-social behaviour and FOR THE VALUE OF WORK assaults) in the workplace. VOLUNTEERS DO FOR THE The number of liquor licences has grown by 52% since 2002, with 491 licences being held in 2011. COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS Community concerns are linked to

• Perceptions that resource sector shift workers SHOWING GRATITUDE FOR incomes present a higher risk of antisocial THOSE EFFORTS. behaviour and • Drinking and drug use by the socio-economically Communities are reporting a slow decline disadvantaged. The data required to explore in volunteering for vital services such as the this is currently unavailable to CQLGA. State Emergency Service (SES). In terms of While many in the community participate in national trends volunteering has the following recreational gaming, gambling addiction is seen characteristics: as a wider anti-social behaviour issue. Over $102 million was spent in poker machines in the 2010/11 • People in the middle age groups (35-44 years to 65-74 years) are more likely to volunteer than those in younger and older age groups, number of operational machines grew by only 7% • Parents in couple relationships and with in the same period and the number of sites with dependent children aged 5-17 years had the machines reduced from 108 to 101. This may be highest rate of participation in voluntary work, driven in part by growth in incomes. Spending increased by 14.9% between 06/07 and 08/09, • Employed people have higher rates when total incomes in CQ only increased 21.48%. of volunteering than those who were There is however, no evidence available to test if unemployed or not in the labour force, and gaming participants experienced income increase • Most volunteering is for sports clubs and physical recreation pursuits.

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Elements Description Current Number/Rate Highlights (Australia) Benchmark and Concerns

Welfare Dependence NewStart and Youth 2,742 Allowance Aged Care (June 2010) Residential Aged Care - 62.8 (AU) 44.2 Rate per 1,000 Population Low-Level Care Places in Low-Level Residential Care Residential Aged Care - 40.7 (AU) 43.0 Rate per 1,000 Population High-Level Care Places in Low-Level Residential Care Total Residential Aged 103.5 (AU) 87.2 Rate per 1,000 Population Care Places in Low-Level Residential Care Community Care Places 39.6 (AU) 24.5 Rate per 1,000 Population in Community Care Healthcare Workers Total Number of Health 3,332.3 Need more recent figures Care Workers Total Health Care Workers 200.4 (AU) 284 83.6 fewer health care workers per 10,000 Population per 10,000 population. Population estimate baseline is 166305 MBS Services Participation (2009/10) Total GP Services 471,036 (AU) 539,598 Rate per 100,000 (MBS and DVA) 45 year old Health Checks 3,375.9 (AU) 4,397.3 Rate per 100,000 by GP’s (Persons aged 45 to 49 years) Annual Health Assessments 103.5 (AU) 19,636.4 Rate per 100,000 by GP’s (Persons aged 75 years and over) Practice Nurse Services 37,021 (AU) 34,295 Rate per 100,000 under the MBS Better Access Program - 5,071.4 (AU) 7,957.1 Rate per 100,000 Preparation of Mental Health Care Plan by GP’s Better Access Program - 208.6 (AU) 515.9 Rate per 100,000 Psychiatrists Better Access Program - 6,203.59 (AU) 13,351 Rate per 100,000 Psychologists Better Access Program - 65.5 (AU) 732.0 Rate per 100,000 Social Workers Mortality (2003 - 2007) Preventable Deaths 133 99.8 Average Annual Rate at ages 0 - 74 years per 100,000 Treatable Deaths at ages 78 67.9 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 Years per 100,000 Avoidable Deaths at ages 213 167.6 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 years: All Causes per 100,000 Avoidable Deaths at ages 71 62 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 Years: Cancer per 100,000

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Elements Description Current Number/Rate Highlights (Australia) Benchmark and Concerns

Avoidable Deaths at ages 49 45 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 years: Cardiovascular per 100,000 Diseases Avoidable Deaths at ages 12 9.4 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 years: Respiratory per 100,000 System Diseases Avoidable Deaths at ages 9 6.8 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 years: Road Traffic per 1,000 Injuries Avoidable Deaths at ages 16 11.1 Average Annual Rate 0 - 74 years: Suicide and per 1,000 Self-Inflicted Injuries Median Age at Death 72 79 Median age at Death in years of age Early Child Developmental Vulnerability (2009) Developmentally Vulnerable 33.8% 23.6% % of Children Assessed in one or more Domains in 1st year School Developmentally Vulnerable 19.29% 11.9% % of Children Assessed in two or more Domains in 1st year School Physical Health and 9.4% 13.8% % of Children Assessed Wellbeing Domain in 1st year School Social Competence Domain 14% 9.5% % of Children Assessed in 1st year School Emotional Maturity Domain 13.22% 8.9% % of Children Assessed in 1st year School Language and Cognitive 19.21% 8.9% % of Children Assessed Skills (Schools-Based) in 1st year School Communication Skills 12.95% 9.2% % of Children Assessed and General Knowledge in 1st year School Child Health Immunisation Status 92.66% 91.3% % of Children aged of Children (Sept 2008) 12 to <15 months Infant Deaths (2003 - 2007) 3.4% 4.7% Average Annual Infant Death Ratio Child Mortality (under 81 112.4 Average Rate per 100,000 five years) (2003 - 2007) Children under five Other Health Breast Screening Participation 57.9% (QLD) 57.0% % Females aged 50 (two years - 2007 and 08) to 69 years Screened Type Two Diabetes 3.4% (QLD) 3.5% N.B. 7,195 People in CQ (Synthetic Prediction) High Cholesterol 5.4% (QLD) 5.5% N.B. 11,570 People in CQ (Synthetic Prediction) Mental and Behavioural 10.6% (QLD) 11.2% N.B. 25,815 People CQ Problems (Synthetic Prediction) Circulatory System Diseases 15.9% (QLD) 15.9% N.B. 34,042 People CQ (Synthetic Prediction) Respiratory System Diseases 23.6% (QLD) 26.0% N.B. 57,257 People CQ (Synthetic Prediction) Musculoskeletal 31.7% (QLD) 30.4% N.B. 69,262 People CQ System Diseases (Synthetic Prediction)

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Elements Description Current Number/Rate Highlights (Australia) Benchmark and Concerns

Current Smokers 23.7% (QLD) 21.8% N.B. 40,450 people CQ (Synthetic Prediction), Persons 18 years and over Alcohol Consumption at 6.0% (QLD) 5.4% N.B. 10,085 people CQ Levels Considered to be a High Risk to Health (Synthetic Prediction), Persons Aged 18 years and over Physical Inactivity (Synthetic 38.5% (QLD) 36.9% N.B. 68,614 people CQ Prediction), Persons aged 15 years and over Overweight (not Obese) 30.6% (QLD) 36.2% N.B. 52,306 people CQ Persons (Synthetic Prediction), 18 years and over Obese (Synthetic Prediction), 19.6% (QLD) 20.6% N.B. 34,280 people CQ 18 years and over Rent Assistance % Households in Dwellings 14.9% (QLD) 19.7% N.B. 10,947 households CQ Receiving Rent Assistance Income Support % of Age Pensioners to Males 70.6% (QLD) 70.1% N.B. 18,100 Age pensioners aged 65 years and over and in CQ Female 63 and over % of Disability Support 4.7% (QLD) 5.0% N.B. 7,436 disability support Pensioners to Males aged 16 - pensioners in CQ 64 and females aged 16 - 62 % of Single Parent Payment 5.7% (QLD) 5.7% N.B. 3,727 in single parent Beneficiaries to Number of payment beneficiaries CQ Females aged 15 - 54 % of People Receiving an 3.9% (QLD) 4.3% N.B. 6,090 people receiving Unemployment Benefit unemployment benefit in CQ (Amended September 2011) to Number of Males aged 15 - 64 and Females aged 15 - 62 % of People Receiving an 2.4% (QLD) 2.5% N.B. 3,635 people receiving an Unemployment Benefit Long- unemployment benefit Term (Amended September long-term in CQ 2011) to Number of Males aged 15 - 64 and Females aged 15 - 62 % of Young People aged 5.8% (QLD) 5.8% N.B. 1,781 persons aged 15 to 24 Receiving an 15 - 24 years in CQ Unemployment Benefit to Persons aged 15 - 24 years % of Welfare-Dependent and 9.2% (QLD) 9.7% N.B. 5,036 welfare-dependent other Low Income Families to and other low income Total Families families in CQ % of Health Care Card Holders 6.3% (QLD) 7.7% N.B. 13,821 pensioner to Persons 0 - 64 year concession card holders in CQ % of Pensioner Concession 16.4% (QLD) 18.3% N.B. 31,013 pensioner Card Holders to Persons aged concession card holders in CQ 15 years and over % of Total Concession Card 18.4% (QLD) 21.4% N.B. 44,838 of total Holders to Total Persons concession card holders in CQ

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Elements Description Current Number/Rate Highlights (Australia) Benchmark and Concerns

% of Total Concession Card 18.4% (QLD) 21.4% N.B. 44,838 of total concession Holders to Total Persons card holders in CQ Education Participation in Vocational 8% 7.8% Per 100 persons aged 17 (2009) Education/Training Year 3 Reading Mean Scale 311.7 (QLD) 307.3 Score (2008) Indigenous Students Year 3 Reading Mean 358.7 369.4 Gap of 47.0 Scale Score (2008) Non- Indigenous Students (QLD) Year 3 Writing Mean 359.9 (QLD) 343.2 Scale Score (2008) Indigenous Students Year 3 Writing Mean Scale 390.9 399.3 Gap of 31.4 Score (2008) Non-Indigenous Students (QLD) Year 3 Numeracy Mean 319.6 (QLD) 312.9 Scale Score (2008) Indigenous Students Year 3 Numeracy Mean Scale 358.9 366.7 Gap of 39.3 Score (2008) Non-Indigenous Students (QLD) Full-Time Equivalent 44,935.2 484,789.0 Students at State Schools 2011, Day 8 Collection Student Attendance 90.4% 90.9% Rates (QLD) Full Time Students 29,425 Includes 197 Special School (August 2011, Prep - Year 12) students, in Gladstone (62) and Rockhampton (135) Animal Welfare Cruelty Complaints 664 (QLD) 12,477 5.3% of QLD Pregnancy (2010) Mothers who gave Birth 3,577 5.92% CQ mothers in 2010 represent 5.92% of the total number of mothers in QLD % of Mothers who Smoked 22.90% 17.22% 54% of Indigenous and 20.5% During Pregnancy of Non-Indigenous mothers smoked during pregnancy – both higher than state average Percentage of Total Births 8.24% 8.08% Since 2008 CQ has a higher that are Livebirth Babies incidence of pre-term births who are 36 Weeks or Less Gestation Total Births 3,630 5.91% Number of Livebirths by 3,595 5.9% Maternal Age 15 - 44Yrs

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Key °

CQLGA Planning Area Social Infrastructure ! Principal Social Infrastructure facilities Whitsunday Mackay ! Major Social Infrastructure facilities Regional Council Regional Council ! District Social Infrastructure facilities ! Minor Social Infrastructure facilities Reefs Charters Towers GLENDEN Waterbody Regional Council Rivers Highways Major Roads NEBO ILBILBIE Isaac Regional Council Local Government Boundaries

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CARMILA MORANBAH STANAGE CLAIRVIEW !

ST LAWRENCE Coral Sea

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MIDDLEMOUNT CLERMONT CLARKE CREEK MARLBOROUGH! BYFIELD! Rockhampton TIERI ! Regional Council CAPELLA! YAAMBA ! !YEPPOON THE CAVES! CAWARRAL EMU PARK ALTON DOWNS ! ! ! Barcaldine !KEPPEL SANDS RUBYVALE! GRACEMERE!ROCKHAMPTON Regional Council SAPPHIRE! ! EMERALD STANWELL! ! ! BLACKWATER ANAKIE ! PORT ALMA ! ! WESTWOOD ! COMET BLUFF ! BOULDERCOMBE ! ! BAJOOL DINGO MOUNT! ! ! MORGAN ! DUARINGA MARMOR ! DULULU AMBROSE ! ! MOUNT ! GLADSTONE ! LARCOM YARW UN! WOWAN BOYNE ISLAND !!TAN NUM SANDS ! ! !SPRINGSURE CALLIOPEBENARABY WOORABINDA! ! SEVENTEEN TURKEY SEVENTY Woorabinda Aboriginal !BARALABA Gladstone Shire Council BEACH ! Central Highlands Regional BOROREN! ! Council AGNES Regional Council MIRIAM! WATER ! BANANA !BILOELA VALE ROLLESTON ! BAUHINIA ! ! ! THANGOOL MOURA

Blackall-Tambo Bundaberg !THEODORE Regional Council Regional Banana Council Shire Council

North Burnett Regional Council Murweh Shire Council !TAROOM

Maranoa Regional Council 030609012015 Western Downs Kilometres Regional Council

© Copyright the State of Queensland (Department of Local Government and Planning) 2012 This map is not intended for reference to specific parcels of land and is to be treated as indicative only. The map should also be used in conjunction with the copyright information on the inside cover of the publication.

76 CQ PROFILE A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO REGIONAL DATA, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING FOOTNOTES

1. Source: Queensland Government population projections, 2011 edition (medium series),

2. Report, 2010 - Full-time equivalent (FTE) population estimates, June 2010”, Queensland Government.

3. Projections by Industry and Statistical Division 2009-10 to 2011-12, Treasury - Queensland Government. N.B. Excludes Isaac Regional Council Area due to Government Figures being available only for Fitzroy Statistical Area.

4. Projections by Industry and Statistical Division 2009-10 to 2011-12, Treasury - Queensland Government. N.B. Excludes Isaac Regional Council Area due to Government Figures being available only for Fitzroy Statistical Area.

5. Projections by Industry and Statistical Division 2009-10 to 2011-12, Treasury - Queensland Government. N.B. Excludes Isaac Regional Council Area due to Government Figures being available only for Fitzroy Statistical Area.

6. Data Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011 (4 Nov), “1379.0.55.001 National

7. Central highlands, and Isaac. Based on 1999 DERM Land Use layer for Gladstone. The

8. Between 2005 and 2010.

9. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011 (Nov 4), “1379.0.55.001 National Regional 2008/09.

10. Growth”

11. Government.

12. Source: NIEIR, 2012. Statistics provided to CQLGA.

13. Source: Tourism Queensland, 2011, “Central Queensland Regional Snapshot”, Queensland Government.

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