Jobseekers data confirms the stabilisation in Cairns

Last weeks Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend data (see here) for Cairns suggested the labour market had entered a period of stabilisation. Today’s release by the Dept of Social Services of their Jobseeker data appears to confirm that when seen through the lens of the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend …read more

Pete talking jobs in Cairns on 4CA this morning

Following on from an article in today’s Cairns Post Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about the latest Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend data and the recent Conus Industry Employment Trend. You can hear the segment below…

Trend unemployment rate dips in Cairns

The ABS regional labour force data needs to be seen through the lens of the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend to make much sense of the highly volatile original data. Today’s release of the data for June shows the Trend unemployment rate in Cairns dipping to 6.5% (from a downwardly revised …read more

Public Sector jobs growth by regions

The release of the Public Sector employment data for the March 2018 quarter allows us to take a look at which regions have seen the greatest increases in the past 12 months, and since the ALP came to power in 2015. What we see, when considering Full-time equivalents (FTE), is an increase …read more

Details from the IVS show Chinese visitors to TNQ in sharp decline

We’ve managed to get our hands on some supplemental data from this week’s International Visitor Survey for the year to March 2018 (see our post from earlier here) which confirms that the very poor performance for the TNQ region is due in no small part to a quite dramatic slide …read more

IVS is horrible for TNQ; falls to record low share of market

Today saw the release by Tourism Research Australia of the (delayed) International Visitor Survey for the year to March 2018 (available here), and while it’s good news for Australia (and to a lesser degree Queensland) the results are very disappointing for the Tropical North. International visitors to Australia were up …read more

Queensland regional building approval fall to a 3 year low

With Australian and Queensland residential building approvals having fallen again in May (see here for details) it’s perhaps no surprise to see approvals at the regional level also falling. Based on our own Conus Trend series derived from the original ABS data at SA4 level, we see that Trend approvals …read more

Comparing Cairns and the Gold Coast

The quarterly industry employment data from the ABS (and more specifically the Conus Industry Employment Trend data derived from it) allows us to take a look at how three of the more important industry sectors for Cairns employment have been tracking compared to the Gold Coast. The charts below show …read more

Trend Jobseeker Data shows the number claiming benefits stable but the Jobseeker Rate higher in Cairns

We recently saw the release by the Dept of Social Services of the May jobseeker data and allows us to update and release our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Jobseeker Trend series. The original, unadjusted data for Cairns (made up of 5 relevant SA3 areas) shows the number of jobseekers decreased slightly in …read more

Regional employment Trend data shows a Tale of Two Cities in the North

Today saw the release of the ABS original regional employment data. As always, we prefer to focus on this data through the lens of the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Employment Trend. When doing so we see a Tale of Two Cities in the North of the state. Cairns once again sees …read more

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