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Mortgage holders know that in recent years the proportion of income needed to service a loan has increased significantly. Increased interest rates, coupled with the growth in the size of ave…
Mortgage holders know that in recent years the proportion of income needed to service a loan has increased significantly. Increased interest rates, coupled with the growth in the size of ave…
Australia’s approvals of new dwellings fell to a decadal low year-ended August 2023, declining to 169,212 separate approvals, recording a 13.1% fall on the prior year. In August 2013, annua…
If economists were engaged on the success of their forecasts, they would fill the queues of the world’s soup kitchens. The agencies – domestic and international alike – that employ them would…
Inflation has been at the forefront of the economic narrative since interest rates started moving upwards in May 2022. At that time, inflation was running at 5.1% annualised, and peaked in De…
Tree mortality in forests and urban areas of Australia can be connected to one major driver – the introduction of new pests and diseases. New diseases continually arrive in Australia, with pa…
New research has shown that genetically modified trees with less lignin could reduce the energy and climate impacts of paper products. Paper products are desirable – they are recycla…
A new study claims a whole-system functional analysis of tree species would help ensure our forests and the construction industry become climate-adaptive. Focusing on the temperate south…
An international research team using data obtained by NASA – yes, that NASA – to boost our current understanding of our planet’s 3D structure has published a report containing s…