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For some time we have been meaning to take a closer look at the split between Full-time and Part-time Trend employment in the Cairns SA4 data; and today we’ve found the time to do it. (For details of Cairns and other QLD regions Conus Trend employment data see here). We’ve …read more
Today saw the release of the ABS regional labour market data from which we have created our Conus Trend series data. Despite anecdotal evidence of improvements in the Cairns region (particularly in the tourism sector), the Trend jobs data deteriorated further in May; as it did in Townsville. The two …read more
The release by the Dept of Employment of their Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data for the first quarter to March 2016 confirms the weaker story that we’ve been seeing in North Queensland for a while. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including ABS Labour Force …read more
Yesterday we released our most recent Conus Trend building approvals data for all the Queensland SA4 Regions (see here). For some time we have also been providing Conus Trend estimates for the Townsville City, Cairns Regional , Cassowary Coast Regional and Douglas Shire Councils. However, we have not previously calculated for …read more
This morning saw the release by Tourism Research Australia of the International Visitor Survey for the March 2016 quarter; and it’s good news all round as the tourism sector continues to benefit from a weaker A$. Full details available for download here. At a national level international visitor numbers were …read more
Yesterday’s post on the regional labour force data (read it here) causes a good deal of interest. Pete was interviewed on ABC Far North first thing this morning and the story has been running in their news bulletins since. If you missed it you can listen to it below…
After the disappointing April labour force data for QLD released last week (see here) which saw the State unemployment rate lift to 6.5% we were bracing for some weak regional data today. The reality was worse then we had been expecting. As always when considering the ABS Regional Labour Force …read more
Mark Beath over at CairnsEconomy.com has done some interesting analysis of the regional building approvals data looking at approvals per capita. Read it here..
Today saw the release of the Regional Building Approvals data from the ABS. This data is released as an unadjusted series so we need to consider the Conus Trend to make any kind of sense. When we look at the Local Government Area (LGA) data we see Cairns Regional Council …read more
Yesterday I attended the Cairns Chamber of Commerce lunch to listen to Ian Maltman, CFO of Cairns Airport, talking about future plans. As the Cairns Post reported today, there was plenty of optimism about the potential of a number of new routes, both international and domestic, coming online in the …read more
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