PESSTEL Considerations

2022

• Federal Labor "Albanese" Government

• Queensland Labor "Palaszczuk" Government.

• The Queensland Government has released its' response into a 516-page report into imprisonment and recidivism. They have committed to implement a series of criminal justice system reforms, but rejected a proposal to decriminalise illicit drugs. 

• The then Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Jackie Trad, said the report was a comprehensive review into the options for how to proceed with dispensing justice in Queensland.   Report   

• Queensland Government favours pre-release restoration programs. Corrective Services counsellors believe "none of them work."

• There is little investment by Queensland Government in post-release prison programs. 

• Trend towards increasing prison capacity and associated overcrowding concerns.  Additional prisons and/or prison blocks are required.

• Trend to transfer private prisons back to State control.

• The over-representation of Indigenous offenders under QCS supervision indicates a strong need for rehabilitation among Indigenous offenders. 

• There is a growing focus on Indigenous reform and a recognition that processes need to be improved.

• Federal Labor says it will allocate more than $90m over four years for justice reforms to reduce the incarceration of Aboriginal people and the number of Aboriginal deaths in custody, if it wins government. Labor says it would launch a national justice reinvestment program with funding for more than 30 communities to design programs focused on rehabilitation, family and domestic violence and school retention, with the aim of diverting those at risk away from the justice system.  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/15/labor-pledges-90m-to-reduce-indigenous-incarceration-and-deaths-in-custody

• The Australian Federal (liberal) Government will provide $2.3 million in funding to reduce recidivism and incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners in Central Australia. Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion said the funding would support the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) to deliver throughcare services for at least another three years. https://www.indigenous.gov.au/news-and-media/announcements/minister-scullion-additional-funding-curb-indigenous-incarceration

• https://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/publications/categories/reports/assets/rehabilitative-needs.pdf 

• https://stories.uq.edu.au/policy-futures/2021/breaking-the-cycle/index.html

• Incentives provided through tax deductions (DGR)

• Australian GDP rose 1.8% to $1.7 trillion and is set to become the 12th largest economy in the world.

• The IMF is forecasting the Australian economy to grow by 4.5% in 2021 and 2.8% in 2022.

• The Australian economy recovered quickly in early 2021 to pre-pandemic levels and is growing 1.4%. each quarter.  September 2021 figures are due out in November.

• Australian Government is enjoying a significant monthly balance of payments surplus due to iron ore prices and China's military build up.  That will change with downward pressure on Iron Ore prices.  Coal prices are increasing.

• Rate of inflation to be 1.8-2.0% and there is significant upward pressure on prices in building supplies.

• 2021 unemployment rate started above 6% and has fallen below 5%

• CoVID19 has significantly increased Government spending in welfare, small business and selective industries such as airlines. (micro-economic intervention).
  
  

Grants to be explored ...

• Department of Education and Training grants

• Department of Housing and Public Works grants

• Department of Justice and Attorney-general grants

• Queensland Health 

• https://www.grants.services.qld.gov.au/#/service-details/60441?answers=1003&sortBy=status&sortDir=desc

• https://desbt.qld.gov.au/training/training-careers/incentives/sqw
  
  

• Global warming press coverage is driving a climate-change agenda.

• International and national media-driven shift towards sustainability and green practices.

• Feminism is evolving for indigenous women and moving from gender binary to gender fluidity. 

• Rise of SOGI attitudes in Australian schools.

• Curriculum challenges to western history in favour of an indigenous world view.

• Marriage rates are declining slowly each decade.

• Abortion is decriminalised in all States.

• The Baby Boomers have started retiring.

• Victoria has adopted the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act (2017).

• Many small businesses are coming onto the market to fund "boomer" retirements in lieu of superannuation.

• International migration of students and visitors has almost stopped.

• Shift towards online communities and working from home.

• Companies that carry out socially responsible practices are regarded more highly.

• Traditional family models are suffering due to absent fathers fathers, drug and alcohol driven abuse, gambling, pornography, moral decay, consumerism and dual career families. (although the last item does not typically affect our clientele)

• NPD is rife in the social media driven online world of influencers.
  
  

• Increase in broad eastern Spiritual awareness with Hindu-driven "new age" (2-3000 year old) experimentation.

• Decrease in church attendance due to CoVID19

• Increase in online Christian teaching and digital material

• Increase in anti-Christian sentiment

• Increase in tension towards Israel from Arab/Muslim countries .

• Labelling of Christians into an anti-social/terrorist group.

• W.A. Government banned Martyn Isles from meeting in Albany

• Decrease in morals and general standards in society

• A teaching shift to make strong servant leaders out of everyday men. 

• Broadband internet giving way to 4G and 5G mobile connections

• Proliferation of mobile phones.

• IOT continues to grow

• IP addressable devices including air-conditioning, TV, radio, appliances

• Increase in VOIP communication platforms (Zoom, Duo, Teams, Messenger)

• Increased use of cloud computing technology (Google drive, pages, sheets, sites, business)

• AI is establishing a presence in all fields of endeavour

• Traceable supply chains are becoming critical to corporate goodwill.

• Management platforms like Trello, Slack, monday.com, 

• Accounting platforms MYOB and QuickBooks yielding to Xero cloud platform

• Broadcasting, medical, robotics, blockchain.

• Increase in road transport across FNQ and Tablelands

• Increase in awareness of environmentally sustainable activities.

• Recycling collections are going to landfill in most towns across Australia.

• Companies are virtue-signaling with environmentally friendly practices

• Greater implementation of sound ecological practices being implemented at a local Council level

• Increased air conditioning usage continues to raise city temperatures.

• 3% shift to electrical vehicles

• Hydrogen vehicles may solve Australia's distance issues.

• Increase in e-waste world wide.

• Plastics and micro-plastics continue to contaminate oceans, cities and agricultural land.

• Ozone holes are closing over

• Climate change causation is still linked to CO2 production. Academics need employment.

• A 50% reduction in Australia's CO2 equates to four days of China's annual CO2 production.
  
  

• Regulation of NFPs is increasing. 

• NFPs have increasing responsibility for financial reporting and process visibility.

• Necessity to maintain auditable transaction and governance documentation.

• NFPs legal entities include Incorporated associations, charitable trust, companies limited by Guarantee. https://www.cof.org/content/nonprofit-law-australia 

• Intellectual property protection is becoming very important in the West, but, Asian neighbours do not respect copyright, patents or trademarks. 

• Personal online privacy and use of data collected from clients is becoming clearer and more arduous.

• Laws Change-https://www.qld.gov.au/law/laws-regulated-industries-and-accountability/queensland-laws-and-regulations/associations-charities-and-non-for-profits/incorporated-associations/new-laws

• Law concerning Charities and Fundraising- https://www.qld.gov.au/law/laws-regulated-industries-and-accountability/queensland-laws-and-regulations/associations-charities-and-non-for-profits/charities-and-fundraising 

• Not-for-profit reforms that could see them be prosecuted for suspected offences of their members.