Slowdown in QLD building approvals is coming from the regions

Today saw the release of the original regional building approvals data from the ABS for July. Last week we saw QLD’s Trend approvals drop by 0.3% m/m and 1.9% y/y (see here for details). Today’s data (when seen through the lens of the Conus Trend series) shows us that those …read more

Updated regional population data. Cairns thumping Townsville

The ABS today revised their regional population data for 2016 and 2017, so we wanted to update our post from April (see original here) to reflect the revised data. At the SA4 level Cairns increased from 2016 to 2017 by 3,061 people (or 1.2%). We can dig deeper into the …read more

Jobseeker Trend remains stable in Cairns

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

Cairns Trend unemployment rate drops again

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

Regional Trend shows approvals slowdown is all in the regions

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

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

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