Australia’s long run of import growth in Builders’ Joinery is continuing, with imports valued at a total AUD467.7 million for the year-ended March 2016, up a very significant 26.7% on the pri…

Australia’s raw wood resource exports continue to explode, with total woodchip exports rising 6.6% for the year-ended March 2016, topping 6.001 million bone dry metric tonnes (bdmt) for th…

Sales of domestically produced sawn softwood rose 1.9% for the year-ended March 2016, hitting a new record of 2.765 million m3, as reported sales for the month of March also punched out a new re…

Imports of sawn softwood appear to have peaked and may be trending down under the pressure of a depreciated Australian Dollar and the competitiveness of domestic processors. For the year-en…

Although owner-occupiers continue to hold the largest share of the value of housing loan approvals, their influence has continued to wane, with most growth being experienced in loans to inv…

New dwelling approvals reached 229,043 separate dwellings for the year-ended March 2016, up 5.9% on the prior year, but seem to have peaked in the last few months. March approvals were 0.7% lo…

Post GFC economic scrambling has finally reached Australia’s shores, prompted by the release of negative inflation data for the March Quarter of 2016. The seasonally adjusted -0.1% inflat…