Former Premier of Queensland, the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was reported to measure the state’s prosperity by looking out his window in the Parliamentary Annex and counting the cranes on the Brisbane CBD skyline.

I have been working from a client’s office in the Brisbane CBD recently and it dawned on me — there is only one crane on the CBD’s skyline. What does that say about the current state of Queensland’s economy?

Only one crane on the Brisbane CBD skyline