Latest trade data shows that despite the strength of domestic sawn softwood sales, imports continue to fall, albeit looking as though they may have reached the bottom of what has been a two yea…

Unsurprising perhaps, given the still record high levels of building activity in Australia, but sales of domestically produced sawn softwood continue to be very strong. For the year-ended…

We do love to renovate our houses, that is what the latest data continues to show. Even through the midst of the super housing boom of the last few years, Australians continued to spend up on impr…

The housing boom continues to cool, with total dwelling approvals falling to 214,7786 separate dwellings for the year-ended July 2017, down 9.1% on the prior year. While the total decline is…

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…