More on those Regional Building Approvals

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..

Regional Building Approvals; no joy in the Far North

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

Take-off at Cairns Airport

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

Regional jobs data is a Tale of 2 Cities in the North

Today’s release of ABS Regional Labour Market data is a very clear tale of two very different cities in the north of the State. Once we have adjusted the raw ABS data, and therefore created the Conus Trend series, we see that Trend Employment in Cairns rose by 400 in …read more

Dept of Employment Small Area Labour Market data

In all the excitement (?) of the Local Government elections last month we missed the release of the Dec quarter SALM data from the Dept of Employment. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including ABS Labour Force data for the SA4 areas, youth and Newstart allowance …read more

Regional Building Approvals data disappoints; new Conus Trend series for QLD Regions launched

Today saw the release of the regional building approvals data for Feb from the ABS. As always, this unadjusted original data can be highly volatile so we should consider instead the Conus Trends. Here we see the Trend for residential approvals in the Cassowary Coast Regional Council area static at …read more

Cassowary Coast population drops again

Today sees the release of the ABS Regional Population estimates as at mid-year 2015 and they show us a small decline in the estimated population of the Cassowary Coast Local Government area to 28,689 (from 28,694 a year earlier). Over the course of the past decade the population of the …read more

Cairns Trend employment growth grinds to a halt

The ABS regional labour force data for Feb were released yesterday and, after analysis via the Conus Trend they show Trend employment growth in Cairns having come to a halt. Despite an original unadjusted figure which showed an increase of 600 the Conus Trend saw Trend employment remain static at 108,700 …read more

Regional jobs data shows Townsville sliding

Today saw the release from the ABS of the regional labour market data for January. As always with this regional data the ABS only provide the original, unadjusted numbers. To get a clear picture we focus on the Conus Trend series. In Cairns the ABS reported a loss of 5,100 …read more

Short Term Arrivals and Departures scale new heights

The ABS released data for Short Term (less than one year) Arrivals and Departures for December. It shows that arrivals into Australia are continuing to grow very strongly hitting a new record high of 659,800 for the month (seasonally adjusted). This is 12% higher than a year ago and for …read more

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