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The 2017 Valuer General’s report sees Cassowary Coast land valuations updated (last done in the 2015 report). The Report notes that.. “The residential markets in Cassowary Coast have been variable throughout the region. The agricultural sector is generally strong with high commodity prices, particularly within the sugar and grazing industries, …read more
Building Approvals for January have defied expectations of a decline and bounced 1.8% for the month (seasonally adjusted), although this is still a 12.0% decline for the year. On the more stable Trend basis approvals fell 2.1% for the month and were down 15.5% over the year. As has been …read more
As expected, the Australian economy once again avoided a technical recession (two consecutive quarters of negative GDP) with a better-than-expected increase GDP of 1.1% for the 4th quarter of 2016. This took year on year growth to 2.4% (up from an upwardly revised +1.9% in Q3) for an annual growth …read more
Last week our own Conus Trend estimates of employment and unemployment rate in Cairns for January had jobs up 8,000 since Jan 2016 and the Trend unemployment rate at 5.9% (see full details here). Today sees the release of Herron Todd White’s Cairns Watch (available in full here); and its …read more
Pete spoke briefly to Keir Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about yesterday’s regional jobs data for Cairns and Townsville (read the post here). You can listen to the radio interview below.
Today saw the release of the ABS Regional Labour Force data. As always, we focus on our own Conus Trend series to see through the highly volatile original, unadjusted ABS data; and what we see is more good news for the North. In Cairns Trend employment has lifted by another …read more
The annual Business Count data for the financial year 2015-16 shows the Cassowary Coast (consisting of the three SA2 areas Innisfail, Johnstone and Tully {which includes Mission Beach and Cardwell}) lost 94 businesses between 2013-14 and 2015-16. This corresponds to a 2.9% decline across the entire region; although Johnstone saw …read more
Today’s release by the ABS of labour force data for January paints a rather confusing picture depending on which set of numbers you wish to focus on. For a start jobs grew by more than expected (+13,500 against an expectation of +10,000) and, in addition, data for Jan was revised …read more
Today’s release of short-term (less than 12 months) arrivals and departures data from the ABS for Dec shows the tourism boom still well and truly in place. Arrivals increased by 6.8% from the same time a year ago, and are up 10.6% over the past 12 months in total. While …read more
There’s been a lot of interest today on the back of the Courier Mail #GoQLD campaign and article on jobs in the regions. John MacKenzie spoke to Pete earlier today; you can listen to the interview below.
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