Eddo Coiacetto and Doug Baker examine the extent and nature of real estate development by local governments in Queensland, a state where private sector values are often assumed to prevail. At least a third of local governments in Queensland have developed land, often because of a perceived failure of the private sector to provide development...

In the end, Joh was the agent of his own political destruction, writes Brian Costar.

Three communities, the small rural shire of Nebo Shire in Central Queensland, the remote area council of Lockhart River in Cape York and the large, urban Ipswich City Council in South East Queensland, used various strategies to engage councillors, council staff and the community. These case studies highlight the challenges of designing and building sustainable...

This paper reviews the content of non-statutory regional natural resource management (NRM) plans from several Queensland regions in terms of their consideration of the economic viability of natural resource dependant enterprises and industries, the plans consideration of the region's ability of regions to respond positively to external change pressures and internal variability, and their consideration...

Sets out a new conceptual framework for analysing disadvantage and dysfunction in Cape York; sets out the goals of the Cape York reform agenda which based on the work of Amartya Sen who considers freedom to be the critical measure of individual wellbeing; the end goal for the Cape York reform agenda can be expressed...