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Today sees the release of the June quarter International Visitor Survey from Tourism Research Australia (full report available here); and although visitor numbers are up strongly it’s not a happy story for Queensland. Visitor numbers to Australia show a 8.7% y/y increase to almost 7.9 million (another new record high). …read more
Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning about last week’s regional jobs data (see details here) and the impact the improving labour market was having on the broader Cairns economy. You can listen to the segment below.
Data released today for Estimated Resident Populations in regional areas shows the population of the Cairns SA4 region climbed 18.1% in the decade to June 30th 2016 reaching 247,762. This was somewhat faster than estimated growth in Townsville SA4 which was +16% to 235,037. However, both regions fell behind growth …read more
Pete spoke to Pat Hession on ABC North Queensland on Thursday afternoon about the Townsville employment data which was released that morning. You can listen to the interview below and read our commentary here.
Today we saw the release of the ABS regional jobs unadjusted data for July. As always, we have to consider the Conus Trend data to make much sense of this highly volatile data-set; and what that shows us is a continuing good-news story in the North. Trend employment in the …read more
Pete spoke to Kier Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about yesterday’s release of the experimental Environmental-Economic accounts for the Great Barrier Reef (see our commentary here). You can listen below.
The ABS have today produced the first edition of a new data set, the Experimental Environmental-Economic Accounts for the Great Barrier Reef (full details here). There’s a lot of information here, sourced from a wide variety of sources, but some highlights include: Marine Condition indicators which show Coral condition at 44 …read more
This morning we saw the release of the ABS original regional building approvals data for June. As always, we need to consider this volatile series in light of the Conus Trend to make much sense of it. In the SA4 regions of Cairns and Townsville there was little to get …read more
For years we have been bemoaning the lack of quality data provided by the ABS at a regional (SA4) level. In particular the labour market data has been a major gripe of ours. How can we expect State and Local Governments to be making sensible policy decisions when they are …read more
Pete spoke to John MacKenzie on radio 4CA this morning on “secondary” jobs (you can read commentary here, and here) as well as domestic tourism in the Tropical North. Listen below…
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