Australia’s raw wood exports (logs and woodchips) continue to steam ahead, fuelled by strong demand, quality supply and the sector’s ‘price is right’ moment thanks to the depreciation in th…

In October 2015, more people were in employment in Australia than at any other time in the nation’s history. More than 11,838,200 people were in jobs in the month, of which 69.0% were in full tim…

Imports volumes of sawn softwood rose 21.9% for the year-ended September 2015, totalling 728,206 m3. Although there were substantial lifts in imports of most grades and products, the bigge…

Sales of treated structural softwood (H2F) achieved their second successive monthly record in September 2015, with sales reaching 551,038 m3. Monthly H2F sales have only exceeded 50,000 m…

Against the trend of the last year, the volume of sales of softwood timber surged in September 2015 to a near record 259,910m3. This was a 14.7% rise on the prior month and was 11.0% higher than fo…

Despite an end apparently being in sight, Australia’s housing approvals continue to stack on the records, with the year-ended September 2015 being the twelfth successive monthly record. A…

FWPA’s ongoing program to improve statistical and economic information available to members continues, is expanding and has recently been assessed against the data supplied by the Austra…

The headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained at an annualised 1.5% for the year-ended September 2015, reflecting Australia’s anaemic economic growth. For the last four quarters, year…