Annualised economic growth – measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – stumbled through to a seasonally adjusted 1.4% in 2018-19, with June Quarter economic growth staggering to 0.5%, ass…

In August 2019, 12.926 million people were employed in Australia, up 2.5% on a year earlier and with 34,700 more people in work than a year earlier. At the same time, the number of unemployed peo…

New Zealand’s total log harvest in 2018-19 was 34.822 million m3, a rise of 5.4% on the prior year, as harvest of Export Logs lifted 11.8% to a record 22.736 million m3. As a proportion of the tota…

Despite being significantly lower than a year earlier, Australia’s imports of sawn softwood products recovered ground in July compared with June’s decadal low import volume. At 45,589 m3,…

Sales of domestically produced softwood Packaging grades lifted 4.1% over the year-ended August 2019, totalling 570,874 m3. The result has quite literally pushed the annualised line off t…

Annualised sales of domestically produced sawn softwood products declined for the ninth consecutive month in August 2019, slipping to 2.819 million m3, down 11.3% on the year-ended August…

Lending for housing finance expanded 5.1% in July 2019, compared with the prior month, lifting to AUD17.896 billion as lending to Owner Occupiers lifted by 5.3% to AUD13.253 billion. The val…

The downturn in residential dwelling approvals continued in July, with monthly approvals falling 2.6% compared with June. On a year-end basis, approvals for all dwellings were down 21.5% o…