On current trajectories, Australia faces the prospect of being consistently unable to meet demand for new housing, because of a persistent and growing gap between demand and supply of sawn s…

Australia’s Wages Price Index lifted 2.6% year-ended June, rising by 0.7% in the June quarter, to deliver three successive quarters of growth. The highest annual wages growth rate since 201…

Is there a more misunderstood and abused term than ‘productivity’? We doubt it. Regardless of the various abuses, productivity has been pretty much the main driver of economic advancement f…

Australia’s unemployment rate dropped to a remarkable 3.4% in July 2022, as all the indications are Australia has reached – and potentially exceeded – the primary definitions of full employ…

The following content was prepared by IndustryEdge and supplied to its subscribers in late August Australia’s imports of engineered wood products were valued at AUD170.9 million fo…

The role of imports of sawn softwood has never been clearer than in 2021-22, Imports rose a massive 64.8% to a record 923,471 m3, helping to meet the surge in demand for sawnwood. The level of imp…

Local sawn softwood sales were relatively steady in July, amidst capacity constraints and supply chain limitations. Year-ended July, total sales were 4.53% lower than a year earlier, tota…

June housing finance data saw the total value of loans fall 4.4% – the largest decline since the dark days of May 2020 as first home buyers were knocked down 10% to the lowest monthly total…