Australia’s unemployment rate sat at 5.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis, at the end of July 2016, returning to its lowest point of the last three years. 725,500 people were out of work (among t…

Australia’s log exports were valued at AUD441.4M for the year-ended June 2016, up a very large 41.1% on the prior year. After woodchips, logs are the second-highest value wood product export…

Although investor’s share of the total value of housing loans has fallen to 46.0% in June 2016, down from a high of 53.8% in May 2015, investors remain dominant in the housing market, especiall…

Evidence that the long-awaited end to the sustained housing boom has arrived is continuing to mount with the latest housing data showing new dwelling approvals down 0.5% in June 2016, compar…

Imports of sawn softwood continued to decline in June 2016, with the full financial year seeing imports decline to 626,008 m3, down 13.7% on the previous year. In encouraging signs for the dom…

In a continuation of the strong upwards trend of the first half of 2016, July saw yet another year-end record reached, with reported sales totaling 2.9 million m3, up 1.2% or 34,000 m3 for the ye…

New short-term forecasts of sawn softwood sales volumes indicate prospects for continued growth through to the March Quarter of 2017. However, the short-term forecasts then anticipate a d…

Providing the evidence for industry efforts to encourage plantation expansion to supply the next generation of forest resource in Australia, the latest plantation data shows the national…