Australia’s exports of wood fibre continue to boom, with little sign of abatement any time soon. Both the two main export products – Hardwood chips and Softwood logs – experienced new export r…

Australia’s imports of sawn softwood – long a topic of fascination and interest – appear to have been stable across 2017, rising just 1.8% (

Australia’s sawn softwood timber sales were stable across 2017 fuelled by continuing demand strength and an increasingly widely held view that production capacity is fully stretched. Lat…

Australia’s improving economic growth was given a large kick-along in the September Quarter by previously under-performing business investment. Quarterly GDP was 0.6% and 2.8% for the ye…

Australia’s first home buyers continue to improve their position in the housing market, with their share of total loans growing consecutively for the first time in close to five years. In Nov…

Despite all of the noise about Australia’s slowing housing approvals, the extent of household indebtedness, the concerns about investor involvement, over-use of interest only loans and a…