Latest consumption forecasts by ABARES suggest the different softwood grades for which forecasts are being supplied are headed in quite different directions over the next year. Meanwhile…

Although it should never be far from the top of the economic agenda, national productivity and the debate about how to improve productivity at the sector and firm level do not always receive th…

This month’s Statistics Count coverage of trade data provides a small taste of FWPA’s new data dashboard system. Two years in the development, and completing it’s beta testing in the coming w…

In pursuit of the perfect data series, to inform business decision-making, FWPA reviews the data it publishes on a regular basis, and makes detailed adjustments to the data, to provide compl…

Australia’s GDP is always impacted by the nation’s resource exports. Although smaller than iron ore and coal exports for example, Australia’s exports of Softwood logs and Hardwood chips ha…

June quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was up 0.8% on a seasonally adjusted basis, representing a significant improvement on the 0.3% increase recorded in the March quarter 2017. In annu…