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…