This report provides the Queensland Government with a blueprint to achieve the ambition set out in Towards Q2: Tomorrow's Queensland, to make Queenslanders Australia's healthiest people. The report highlights that Queensland's rate of chronic disease risk factors such as alcohol consumption, smoking, physical inactivity and excess weight is among the highest in Australia.
The report recommends a number of actions for the government to lead the way in achieving the Q2 ambition, by taking a whole-of-Government approach, investing in prevention, driving enduring behavioural change, making the healthy choice the easy choice and using new technologies for early detection and screening programs.
Queenslanders tackling chronic disease (
PDF, 1.13 MB)
Queenslanders tackling chronic disease (.doc, 1.12 MB)
This report illustrates ways in which investment can be attracted into knowledge-based or smart industries. The report discusses strategies to reshape Queensland's investment attraction efforts by focussing on industry sectors or sub-sectors in areas of Queensland's competitive advantage that also align with the needs of investors and the key drivers that influence business investment decisions.
In particular, the report recommends a new model to develop and implement industry strategic plans and investment attraction plans, with multi-skilled project teams and an investment ambassadors program comprising senior business people to promote Queensland internationally.
Attracting investment into Queensland's knowledge-intensive industries ( PDF, 548 KB)
Attracting investment into Queensland's knowledge-intensive industries (.doc, 365 KB)
Design is the process which translates innovative ideas into feasible reality. The value of design is increasingly becoming recognised worldwide for many reasons - to enhance competitiveness, to create tourism identity, to enrich the social and cultural fabric of regions, to improve efficiencies, to solve environmental challenges, and to create export potential. This report focuses on the role of design in creating competitive economies and examines ways to recognise, promote and advance the value of design as fundamental to the ethos of the Smart State.
Smart State = Design State ( PDF, 622 KB)
Smart State = Design State (.doc, 929 KB)
Government response to the Smart State = Design State report ( PDF, 109 KB)
Government response to the Smart State = Design State report (.doc, 207 KB)
Queensland's primary industries (agribusiness, food and fibre) sector is a major contributor to the Queensland economy. The food and fibre sector faces significant challenges, at both a global and domestic level, in maintaining its competitive edge. This report examines opportunities for the Queensland food and fibre sector to prosper in a rapidly changing global market and outlines a 2030 Smart State vision for the sector, to meet the requirements of economic, environmental and social sustainability in the future.
Review of Research, Development and Extension in the Queensland Food and Fibre Sector ( PDF, 670 KB)
Review of Research, Development and Extension in the Queensland Food and Fibre Sector (.doc, 946 KB)
This report investigates a framework for using broadband connectivity and intersectoral collaboration to transform the challenges of a sparsely populated State into enhanced industrial productivity, expanded export opportunities, and reinvigorated social and cultural networks for rural and regional Queenslanders (November 2007).
Sparse State - the death of distance ( PDF, 373 KB)
Sparse State - the death of distance (.doc, 689 KB)
Summary of the Queensland Government Response ( PDF, 54 KB)
Summary of the Queensland Government Response (.doc, 58 KB)
This report addresses the imbalance between Queensland's public sector research effort, which is highly competitive but to a large degree unfocussed on pursuing the development of research towards its ultimate application, and the business sector which is also highly competitive but not taking full advantage of R&D opportunities. This report suggests that drawing these two cultures closer together will result in substantial increases in knowledge-intensive industry, with consequent economic and employment benefits for Queenslanders (November 2007).
Fusion: Activating a Research & Business Development Culture in the Smart State ( PDF, 646 KB)
Fusion: Activating a Research & Business Development Culture in the Smart State (.doc, 832 KB)
Summary of the Queensland Government Response ( PDF, 54 KB)
Summary of the Queensland Government Response (.doc, 81 KB)
This report is set against a backdrop of adversity - the ongoing crisis in Queensland health services delivery, and also a backdrop of opportunity - the emerging strengths of our biotechnology industry. It proposes solutions including:
increasing the quality and quantity of health services delivery and economic outcomes through focuses investment in critical mass
linking our health and medical research organisations through an extension of the ideas developed in the Smart Cities report
redefining the culture of Queensland Health and medical R&D through the creation of a strong quasi governance model.
Medical Research: Queensland's Future Health and Wealth ( PDF, 500 KB)
Medical Research: Queensland's Future Health and Wealth (.doc, 1 MB)
Summary of the Queensland Government Response ( PDF, 54 KB)
Summary of the Queensland Government Response (.doc, 63 KB)
This report presents a vision for planning Brisbane as a centrepiece for the Smart State. It focuses on planning the city centre around existing creative, cultural, education and research precincts and aims to improve the connections across the city centre for the Brisbane community.
Smart Cities: rethinking the city centre (.doc, 340 KB)
Smart Cities: rethinking the city centre ( PDF, 5.4 MB)
Explores areas critical to ensuring a high-quality and relevant education system in the fast-moving world of the 21st century.
Education and Skills report (HTML)
Education and Skills report ( PDF, 366 KB)
Identifies several opportunities to strengthen Queensland’s competitive advantages in knowledge-intensive services, an increasingly important component of Queensland’s Smart State transition to a knowledge-based economy.
Smarter Services report (HTML)
Smarter Services report ( PDF, 556 KB)
Discusses the integral role the community will play in delivering on the Smart State vision and offers recommendations on how Queenslanders should be engaged.
Engaging with the Community report (HTML)
Engaging with the Community report ( PDF, 664 KB)
This report looks at the drivers of globally successful regions around the world, focusing on Austin, North Carolina and San Diego (US); Cambridge (UK) Victoria (Australia); Finland; Israel; Singapore; Sweden and Taiwan. Through an analysis of the key characteristics that make these regions innovative, the report examines the implications for Queensland's future development as a Smart State.
Smart State Council Report Smart regions (PDF, 670 KB)
Smart State Council Report Smart Regions (.doc, 978 KB)
This report finds that building business expenditure on R&D (BERD) in Queensland's existing predominantly low/medium technology industries will require stronger industry/research collaboration and increased uptake of R&D managerial skills by Queensland firms.
Smart State Council Report BERD (PDF, 438 KB)
Smart State Council Report BERD (.doc, 612 KB)
This report examines Queensland's capabilities in tropical science in the areas of health, environment, primary industries, building design and education services to the tropical world and discusses the opportunities for Queensland in developing an integrated approach to marketing commercial expertise in those areas.
Smart State Council Report Tropical opportunities (PDF, 481 KB)
Smart State Council Report Tropical opportunities (doc, 1024 KB)
Last reviewed 1 December 2008