According to the OECD Labor Productivity Report Australia’s productivity continues to grow at better than even pace, but only when compared to other developed nations. Compared with prior…

Valuing Australia’s natural resources – forestry, cotton and fishing related – is a big task, with a huge pay off, over the long term. Establishing the economic value of natural assets includ…

Australia’s economy, along with a small number of others, used its underlying strengths and residual capacities to dodge the worst of the GFC bullet. Those capacities included the ability t…

Australia’s retail sales continued to slump in March, falling 0.1% for the second successive quarter. Concern is mounting that once again, Australia’s rate of economic growth will slip int…

Staying in love with their current dwellings, Australian’s expenditure on residential renovations rose 2.6% for the year-ended March 2017, compared with the prior year. The value of Alter…

Latest sales forecasts, based on the sawn softwood data series, show that sales of structural products will be stable through the remainder of 2017, with modest decline anticipated for Land…

Although they were down 1.7% on March, to the end of April, full year sales of domestically produced sawn softwood were still 3.0 % higher than for the year-ended April 2016. Sales totaled 3,09…

Near universal consensus that Australia’s dwelling approvals have peaked and begun the inevitable downturn comes as little surprise after more than a year of expectations that a slow-down…