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The risk of an Australian recession in the next two years is about one in four according to an influential survey of academics and economists. Curated by The Conversation, its initial economi…
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Jim Houghton, FWPA’s Statistics & Economics Manager provides a broad scan of the outlook for the Australian economy over 2019 In ancient days the Greeks consulted the Oracle of Delphi f…
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Australia’s softening housing market continued to weaken in November 2018, with year-end approvals down 3.9% compared to a year earlier. All of the weakness is in the multi-residential are…
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Sure signs of the long-awaited easing continued in December, as reported domestic sales of sawn softwood products slumped 31.9% compared to the prior month and sales for 2018 fell 1.7% compa…
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Today, the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) released the preview version of the 2019 National Construction Code (NCC) that increases the range of buildings, up to an effective height…
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Project number: PNA384-1516 The aim of this project was to update the environmental Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data for Australian-produced wood products. The pre-existing data was last c…
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The number of people employed in Australia rose to 12.671 million over the year-ended October 2018, a rise of 2.5% compared to the prior year. An additional 32,800 people were employed in Octo…
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since May of 2001, and falling 0.6% compared with the prior month. As the chart below shows, the value of loans for Alterations & Additions has declined steeply since peaking in late 2017…