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The Cairns Post is this morning running a story about an apparent ‘skyrocketing’ in crime within the Cairns Regional Council area. The paper (never one to shy away from dramatising the crime story) quotes extensively from data provided by the organisers of an upcoming crime forum in the city. Unfortunately, …read more
If you would rather listen to an AI-generated podcast about this analysis you can! Listen here. Introduction The success of Northern Australia’s development hinges on effectively harnessing its human capital. Our research reveals a critical, and often underestimated, factor in this equation: the dramatic increase in female labour force participation …read more
The extended run of positive employment growth in Cairns continued in March. The region has seen an additional 3,800 people employed in the past year. While over the course of the last 12 months we see employment up we should note that there are also fewer people registered as unemployed. …read more
While the Trend unemployment rate in Australia remains remarkably stable (stuck between 4.0% and 4.1% for more than a year), we are seeing some clear signs of the gradual easing in the labour market coming from the JobSeeker data. In March the Conus Trend estimate for JobSeekers edged higher to …read more
The extended run of positive employment growth in Cairns continues this month with another 200 added. The region has now seen an additional 4,800 people employed in the past year. Again, this month we see the increase all coming from full-time positions. While over the course of the last 12 …read more
The extended run of positive employment growth continues for Cairns this month with another 400 added. The region has now seen an additional 5,200 people employed in the past year and this month (once again) we see the increase all coming from full-time positions. While over the course of the …read more
We are finally seeing some increase in the number of JobSeekers in the Cairns region. Having sat between 15,500 and 16,000 for more than a year, the October data confirms a gradual increase having been in place in the Trend since July. Trend JobSeekers now sit at 16,399 (its highest …read more
Many of you will have noticed that there hasn’t been a new Cairns Report issued since August. There have been some unavoidable hurdles faced by the Cairns Report team which have meant we have had to suspend production, but rest assured we are actively exploring ways to get the report …read more
This is the fifth month for which we are using the new Enhanced Regional Labour Force data from the ABS, which is backdated to 2020 (for employment) and 2016 (for unemployment). This is now providing a more robust and less volatile data-set which we can utilise to estimate our Conus/CBC …read more
The quarterly Labour Account data from the ABS showed that in the year to June 2024 average income across Australia grew at 2.8% yy. In Queensland (based on Conus analysis of the Labour Account and the split of industry employment relative to the nation) we estimate the figure was a …read more
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