What is The Queensland Plan ?

What is The Queensland Plan?

• Our shared vision for the next 30 years

• Developed through grassroots collaboration

• Guide future activities delivered by all levels of government, business and the community

• The Queensland Plan will be created by Queenslanders, for Queenslanders

Visioning“Essentially, visioning is a planning

process through which any community creates a shared vision for its future and begins to make that vision a reality. It provides an overlay for plans, policies, and decisions, as well as a guide to concrete actions in the wider community.” - Steven Ames

Process

May Mackay Summit to develop the process and the questions

May-August Community engagement and consultation across the state

October Brisbane Summit to discuss contributions from Queenslanders

End 2013 The Queensland Plan released

CSIRO Megatrends

Queensland today• Covers 1,852,642 square kilometres• Population of 4.6 million• 13.3% of which are over the age of 65• In 45 years, 24.3% will be aged over 65• Life expectancy increased by 2.7 years in last decade• 52% live outside the Greater Brisbane Area• Third-largest economy in Australia• 2.33 million in the labour force

Thinking about Queensland in 30 years time…

• Where will you be?

• Where will your family be?

• Where will your children be?

• What is the world going to be like?

• What would you like your world to be like?

The questions we are asking Queensland to answer

• 400 Queenslanders came up with questions to make us think about the future

• Look at different aspects of our life

• Six Queensland questions

Queensland Question 1

In the context of living in the community, how do we move our

focus from me to we?

Queensland Question 2

How do we create and foster an education culture that teaches skills and values to meet global

challenges and optimises regional strengths?

Queensland Question 3

How do we empower and educate individuals, communities

and institutions to embrace responsibility for an active and

healthy lifestyle?

Queensland Question 4

How do we structure our economy to ensure our children

inherit a resilient future?

Queensland Question 5

How do we strengthen our economic future and achieve

sustainable landscapes?

Queensland Question 6

How do we attract and retain the brightest minds and ideas where

they are most needed and capitalise on global opportunities?

Community Consultation

Consultation through many avenues

Most input through individual responses on the website and

through organisations

Community Consultation

A total of 78,500 responses

Responses collated and major issues identified

Brisbane Summit

9th & 10th October

700 delegates including regional delegates, mayors, all MP’s,

interested organisations

Brisbane Summit

Brisbane Summit

Process of reviewing public responses, defining focus areas

and goals

Prioritisation and action plans

Where to from here?

Process of refining agreed outcomes and writing the plan

document

Plan to be released before the end of the year

Where to from here?

Queensland Plan will be enshrined in legislation

Used as a reference for all government plans and activities

Where to from here?

Process of review and update

Questions

queenslandplan@qld.gov.au