Australia’s productivity, the nation’s capacity to grow its income and living standards, is again under the spotlight, as a result of productivity growth having largely stalled and in the f…

Latest employment data likely points to a labour market where under-employment is becoming ever more significant. With average hours of work in Australia declining and total hours worked p…

The second ABARES quarterly forecasts show continued strong growth in sales of termite treated structural pine (otherwise known as H2F), outstripped forecasts by 6.1% in the September qua…

Since the mid-1990s, Australia held the perhaps dubious record of building the largest free-standing dwellings (houses), having over-taken the US at the onset of the global financial cris…

It is debatable – and constantly debated – but approvals for new dwellings appear to have peaked, with the latest data indicating there is an emerging turbulence in approvals. Most commentat…

Despite falling approvals of high-rise apartments, Australia’s total residential dwelling approvals continue to grow on an annualised basis. For the year-ended September 2016, approva…

Sales of domestically produced sawn softwood keep cranking out records, with the latest aggregates showing increases of 14.4% for the year-ended September, compared with the prior year. T…