Australia’s imports of particleboard fell by 8.5% for the year-ended May 2016, even as imports of the other ‘panel products’ all rose. Significantly, over the same period, imports of MDF/Ha…

On 23rd June 2016, the citizens of the United Kingdom voted in a referendum and determined to leave the European Union at some point in the next two years. The impact, for the UK at least, was seri…

Imports of dressed sawn softwood declined 11.4% over the year-ending May 2016, slipping to 636,369 m3. The combined impact of a depreciating Australian Dollar and increasingly competitiv…

Concluding the financial year with a flourish, sales of domestically produced sawn softwood totalled 2,897,853 m3 for the year-ended June 2016. Sales were 9.9% higher than for the prior fin…

As the Census approaches on 9 August, the latest edition of Melbourne University’s longitudinal survey of Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), has been released, sh…

For more than six months, the end of the long-running Australian housing boom has been predicted, but has yet to come. Although the signs are evident – slowing approvals are the key indicator –…

Australia’s new record low interest rate of 1.5% has been introduced because of global economic conditions, more than any other factor. As a new wave and various forms of global monetary poli…