Australia’s long-running residential housing expansion is showing signs it will slow in coming months, as approvals for new dwellings begin to slide. Total dwelling approvals for the year…

Anecdotal evidence has been confirmed by the latest sawn softwood sales data, with total sales reaching 2.720 million m3 for the year-ended February 2016, up just 0.1% compared with the year…

Imports of sawn softwood totaled 681,331 m3 for the year-ended January 2016, up 5.3% compared with the year-ended January 2015. However, year-end imports peaked at 736,479 m3 in July 2015 an…

Feeding in to growing household consumption measured in the GDP data, Australia’s retail sales grew by 3.8% for the year-ended January 2016, measured on a seasonally adjusted basis. This co…

The future of economic activity is of course, always uncertain, including within it, items such as risk and the appetite for taking it. As a concept, uncertainty is unable to be observed direc…

Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was a satisfactory but unremarkable 3.0% in calendar year 2015, growing soundly from the 2.2% recorded for 2014. However, just below the surface, f…