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Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend data, unemployment rates and the improving employment landscape in Cairns. You can hear it below….
Pete spoke to Kier Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about the regional building approvals data released yesterday (see here for our commentary) and in particular the impact the slowdown is having on construction employment in Townsville. You can hear the interview below.
The ABS have released their original, unadjusted December residential building approvals data for the regions this morning which allows us to update our own Conus Regional Building Approval Trend series. Given the poor showing at the state and national level that we saw last week, which showed a trend decline …read more
The latest Dept of Social services data for jobseekers in the Cairns and Townsville regions allows us to update our Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend Jobseeker data set. This shows a small uptick in the total number of Jobseekers in both regions. Cairns now sits at 8,896 (up from an upwardly …read more
The release by the ABS of the original December regional labour force data allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend series for the SA4 regions in QLD. What we see, once again, is the regions doing better than Greater Brisbane. With the ABS Trend unemployment rate …read more
Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about the growth in part-time work in Cairns, on the back of an article in today’s Cairns Post. You can listen to the interview below.
Today saw the release of the regional residential building approvals data from the ABS which allows us to update our own Conus Trend series; and what it shows is, as expected, the slowdown in the Far North continues with Townsville especially weak. With Trend approvals in Queensland falling in November …read more
Last month saw the release of the Labour Account series which provided details of income growth rates for various industry sectors (see here for our post at the time). Given the various income growth rates across industry sectors and combining this with the industry employment breakdown at the regional level …read more
The release by the Dept of Social Services of their Labour Market and Related Payments data for Nov allows us to update our Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend data for Cairns and Townsville. It shows Trend jobseeker numbers in both regions have fallen in the past year; Cairns down 703 …read more
We have returned from a few weeks away over the New Year and now have a chance to take a look at the tourism data released by Tourism Research Australia (and available here) while we were away. The (delayed) International Visitor Survey was released at the same time as the …read more
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