Useful links

• Healthy Food and Drink Guidelines is a new guide for healthy food and drink supply for sporting clubs, and provides information on what constitutes healthy food and drink, and how to provide and promote healthy options to families.
• Snapshot of the health of Queenslanders in 2009 (PDF, 46 KB) provides an overview of the prevalence of health risk factors and chronic diseases in the Queensland population.
• Austrade Economics tracks current and future trends in the global economy in order to assist Australian exporters, investors, educators and students. It also undertakes studies of the exporter community in Australia and associated domestic economic influences and major public policy issues.
• The Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC) provides innovation and collaboration services for organisations and regularly publishes research and policy papers.
• The Greenhouse Indicator provided weekly by The Climate Group, measures Queensland's greenhouse gas emissions from the three main sources of energy: coal, natural gas and petroleum.
• Australia's National Greenhouse Accounts are a comprehensive set of reports outlining Australia's greenhouse gas emissions - as a nation, by state and by industry.
• State of the Environment Queensland 2007 is the third report on the condition of Queensland's environment. Released every four years, the report examines the pressures acting on the state's natural resources and capital, the state or condition of the environment, and responses by society to reduce pressures and protect and conserve the state's natural and cultural heritage.
• Queensland Infrastructure Plan identifies the infrastructure needed to support and further encourage growth across Queensland.
• Far North Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 is the blueprint that will manage the anticipated population growth in Far North Queensland and guide development over the next 20 years. It identifies developable land to accommodate future growth while protecting the region's environment, biodiversity and natural resources.
• Queenslanders tackling chronic disease: becoming Australia's healthiest state 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. It recommends a number of actions for the government to lead the way in achieving the Q2 healthy 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.
• Government Response to the report on Queenslanders tackling chronic disease: becoming Australia's healthiest state is the Queensland Government's response to the Smart State Council's Queenslanders tackling chronic disease: becoming Australia's healthiest state report.
• Health at a glance 2009: OECD indicators outlines the current Australian trends for health, noting that for Australians, consistent with Queensland trends, smoking has decreased but obesity has increased. Australia is ranked fourth worst in terms of adult obesity rates, following the United States, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Half or more of the adult population is currently defined as being either overweight or obese in no less than 13 OECD countries, including Australia.
• Still doing it tough: an update on deprivation and social exclusion among welfare service clients, July 2009 (PDF, 1.47 MB)
• Healthy, wealthy and wise?: The relationship between health, employment and earnings in Australia (AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report Issue 23 - By Binod Nepal, Alicia Payne and Laurie Brown AMP.NATSEM, Sydney, Other Publication - OP68)
• Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
• Queensland Treasury
• Office of Economic and Statistical Research
• Department of Infrastructure and Planning
• Department of Environment and Resource Management
• Office of Climate Change
• Department of Transport
• Office of Clean Energy
• Office for Early Childhood Education and Care
• Department of Education and Training
• Skilling Solutions Queensland
• ACARA National Assessment Program_ Literacy and Numeracy 2009 (PDF, 19.3 MB)
• Queensland Health
• Find your 30
• Health Insite
• Department of Health and Ageing
• Australian Social Inclusion Board
• Department of Communities
• Volunteering Queensland