Sales of domestically sawn softwood products are at record levels, and growth is strongest for the treated products, but still, top place is held by untreated structural products. The untre…

The US dollar has strengthened in recent months, forcing the Australian dollar down. The ties for the floating Australian dollar have always been close, so the growing differential between…

Australia’s long run of growth in expenditure on Alterations & Additions peaked in the second quarter of 2017, when it reached an annualized AUD8.765 billion, since which it has declin…

Average house prices are falling across Australia as the super-heated domestic property market really cools. Nationally, in the March quarter, average prices were still 2.0% higher than a…

Forecasts of treated structural pine sales in the March quarter were exactly consistent with actual sales, which totalled 194,390 m3. The forecast was an irrelevant 69 m3 (one large truck) d…

buLittle more than six months on from the closure of the Morwell sawmill, domestic sales of sawn softwood are higher, and have recovered some ground, at least on an annualized basis. For the ye…