Australia’s exports of roundwood – logs – totaled 3,832,087 m3 for the year-ended August 2016, a massive 41.1% increase on the prior year. To put that into perspective, the total increase is m…

The value of imports of all builders’ joinery increased 16.2% in the year-ended August 2016, hitting AUD477.7 million for the year. Within the import classifications and the major products…

Australia’s job vacancies have continued to rise, providing three full years (12 consecutive quarters) of vacancy growth, but remaining just below the peaks achieved in 2011. The total num…

Domestically produced sawn softwood sales rose 12.6% year-ended September 2016, hitting 2,931,136 m3. This is more than 300,000 m3 higher than the prior year, with expectations that comin…

The rate of increase in housing approvals appears to be easing with 235,337 separate units for the year-ended August 2016, a 1.9% rise on the prior year. While there has been growth across the b…

Australia’s banks appear to have called the end of the growth in Australia’s apartment market. Using lending limits and loan to value ratios, the banks are winding back their lending in the mo…

Philip Lowe, the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia hit the public scene for the first time in his new role, in mid-October. With inflation, both globally and at home largely below tw…