Australia’s inflation rate has not hit its straps for four long years, continuing to languish below the 2.0% that represents the bottom of the RBA’s target band. At 1.8% in 2019, the Consumer P…

Feeding into the narrative of an improving domestic housing market, the value of housing finance in November 2019 saw loans totalling $18.593 an increase 5.9% compared 12 months before and 1…

Gradual improvement in the volume and value of building work being done in Australia continued in the September quarter, with the non-residential sector: industrial and commercial, doing…

For the first time in eighteen months, December 2019 saw dwelling approvals rise on an annualised basis. The very modest increase of just 0.5% compared to the month earlier saw total approval…

Inevitably, as the fire season continues and seemingly unprecedented damage has been wrought upon the national productive plantation estate, the role of log exports – especially softwood…

The value of Australia’s forestry and wood products imports continued to decline on a year-on-year basis in late 2019. Total imports were valued at AUDFob1.954 billion for the year-ended No…

In the first signs of a possible return to growth, sales of locally produced sawn softwood lifted in November and December, compared with the corresponding periods in 2018. November was the f…

The launch of the Softwood Weighted Average Price Data series on the FWPA data dashboard provides a valuable insight into historic price trends for a range of softwood products. The data seri…