With the ABS regional labour force data, and the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend of that data, showing the unemployment situation improving slightly in Cairns over the past couple of months it’s a little surprising that today’s Trend analysis of the July Jobseeker data from the Dept of Social Services shows …read more
The ABS release of their original labour force July data for the regions today allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trend data. We see Trend employment in Cairns lifted 1,000 in July (after June’s increase was also revised up) with 900 of those positions in …read more
Today saw the release of the ABS original regional building approvals data for June. Last week we saw the Trend data for Queensland showing a 5.2% decline for the year; today’s data (when seen through the Conus Trend series) confirms that this slowdown is all due to the regions. For …read more
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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