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Paul Morgan, a building design student at Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute has taken out the first Dangerous Design prize of $500 cash – and is in for a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize or the s…
Paul Morgan, a building design student at Melbourne’s Box Hill Institute has taken out the first Dangerous Design prize of $500 cash – and is in for a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize or the s…
Australia’s total log exports totaled 3.918 million m3 for the year-ended November 2016, recording a 26.1% increase on the prior year. Exports for both coniferous (softwood) and broadleav…
Demonstrating the variability of global markets, prices for sawlogs in Europe fell in the September quarter, while US prices generally rose in the September and December quarters. Despite…
Reported in December, Australia recorded its first negative quarter of economic growth in almost six years, with September quarter 2016 seeing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) recorded at -0.…
Falling to 591,029 m3 for the year-ended November 2016, imports of saw softwood declined 17.2% on the prior year. The majority of the decline was booked by ‘dressed’ products, imports of whic…
Sales of domestically produced sawn softwood continued their strength n November, pushing year-end sales to 3,112,044 m3, up a very strong 18.2% on the prior year. The increasing annual sal…
Although the rate of growth has slowed in recent months, the value of imported Builders’ Joinery rose 3.5% in the year-ended November 2016, reaching AUD463.742 million. Despite this, month…
The proportion of housing loans issued to investors has grown again, with investors receiving 49.6% of the value of all new loans in November 2016. Although it’s a subject of debate, the data s…