Seasonally adjusted unemployment fell to 5.7% in March 2016, down from 5.8% a month earlier. The number of people unemployed fell by 7,300 compared with the prior month and therefore in March…

Implied per capita measures provide useful information with which to compare countries and their relevant performances.  We have only to think of measures of per capita income (How many US D…

The volume of Australia’s log exports rose a very solid 31.4% for the year-ended February 2016, reaching 3.310 Mm3, their highest ever volume. Meanwhile, the other major raw wood resource, w…

Registering a small 0.1% increase on the prior year, sales of domestic sawn softwood reached 2,720,524 m3 for the year-ending February 2016, rising less than 2,000 m3 compared with the prior…

After rising to worrying levels in the first half of 2015, housing loan approvals to investors have fallen back, accounting for 46.2% of total loans in February 2016. In May 2015, a record high…

Leading economists are predicting the end of the housing boom as approvals appear to have peaked and may have commenced a long-awaited downturn. Although approvals for the year-ended Febru…