Toward Q2 – How are we progressing?

Target: Cut by one-third Queenslanders' carbon footprint with reduced car and electricity use.

Progress to date:
12.35 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per household.

Q2 Baseline:
13.77 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per household.

Target: Protect 50 per cent more land for nature conservation and public recreation.

Progress to date:
Land for conservation – 8.2 million hectares.
Land for public recreation is 310,000 hectares.

Q2 Baseline
Land for conservation 7.6 million hectares.
Land for public recreation – baseline of 300,000 hectares established in 2010.

Target: All children will have access to a quality early childhood education so they are ready for school.

Progress to date:
69 per cent of Queensland children participate in an early childhood education program.

Q2 Baseline:
29 per cent of children participate in an early childhood program.

Target: Three out of four Queenslanders will hold trade, training or tertiary qualifications.

Progress to date:
55.3 per cent of Queenslanders hold Certificate III or higher qualifications.

Q2 Baseline:
50.3 per cent of Queenslanders hold Certificate III or higher qualifications.

Target: Cut by one-third obesity, smoking, heavy drinking and unsafe sun exposure.

Overweight/obese

Progress to date:
Overweight/obese: men – 64.1 per cent.
Overweight/obese: women – 50.7 per cent.

Q2 Baseline:
Overweight/obese: men – 62.7 per cent.
Overweight/obese: women – 42.4 per cent.

Smoking

Progress to date:
Smoking: men – 16.6 per cent.
Smoking: women – 13 per cent.

Q2 Baseline:
Smoking: men – 18.9 per cent.
Smoking: women – 15.4 per cent.

Drinking

Progress to date:
Drinking: men - 13.9 per cent.
Drinking: women – 10.6 per cent.

Q2 Baseline:
Drinking: men – 11.5 per cent.
Drinking: women – 12.1 per cent.

Unsafe sun exposure

Progress to date:
4.8 per cent sunburnt on the weekend.

Q2 Baseline:
15 per cent sunburnt on the weekend.

Target: Shortest public hospital waiting times in Australia.

Elective surgery median waiting time

Progress to date:
29 days and best in the country. National average 36 days.

Q2 Baseline:
25 days and best in the country. National average 32 days.

Elective surgery patients seen within clinically recommended timeframes

Progress to date:
85 per cent of elective surgery patients seen within clinically recommended timeframes in November 2011.

Q2 Baseline:
85 per cent and third in the country.
National average 84 per cent.

Emergency department median waiting times

Progress to date:
23 minutes and fourth in the country.
National average 23 minutes.

Q2 Baseline:
29 minutes and third longest in the country.
National average 24 minutes.

Patients seen within clinically recommended timeframes

Progress to date:
67 per cent and third in the country.
National average 70 per cent.

Q2 Baseline:
61 per cent and sixth in the country.
National average 70 per cent.

Target: Halve the proportion of Queensland children living in households without a working parent.

Progress to date:
15.8 per cent of children live in a household without a working parent.

Q2 Baseline:
15.9 per cent of children live in a household without a working parent

Target: Increase by 50 per cent the proportion of Queenslanders involved in their communities as volunteers.

Progress to date:
35.4 per cent of Queenslanders volunteer.

Q2 Baseline:
37.8 per cent of Queenslanders volunteer.