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After the bizarre jobs data last week (see here for commentary) it is worth remembering that on a Trend basis Queensland saw the unemployment rate tick up to 6.7% from 6.6%. Fortunately the story in the Far North is looking better than that, with yet another month of improvement in …read more
Yesterday saw the release of Tourism Research Australia’s International Visitor Survey for the second quarter of 2014. We covered some of the detail yesterday (see here). TRA have opted to cease producing some data for public release; this includes the breakdown of visitors to regions by their country of origin. …read more
ABS data this morning for Building Approvals in July beat market expectations. Seasonally adjusted approvals were up 2.5% for the month (against expectations around +1.7%) for a 9.4% increase on the year. The bulk of the increase came from the highly volatile units sector, with housing approvals up by just …read more
Despite reporting as “news” data released more than 2 weeks ago (the regional labour stats) The Cairns Post has still managed to get it wrong! Today’s story is based on ABS data from Aug 14th and Herron Todd White’s Cairns Watch for August. Unfortunately when it comes to reporting the …read more
The Master Builders of Queensland Survey of Industry Conditions for June 2014 has been released, and it continues a trend of being rather more optimistic than either general current conditions or their own respondents recent results would appear to justify. Both Queensland Economy Watch and Loose Change have covered the …read more
The Cairns Post runs a story this morning highlighting the fact that the number of travellers through the airport breached the 4.5 million mark in the financial year ending June 2014; and so they did. The full statistics are available from Cairns Airport here. Unfortunately for the ever-vigilant Post the …read more
An interesting report from the Dept of Infrastructure and Regional Development provides data for the year to June 2014 on the performance of our local airlines and airports. Included in the report are details of which airline had the best on-time performance for departures (Qantas and Regional Express) and arrivals …read more
Comments from a reader to yesterday’s post regarding Cairns and Townsville regional labour force data, together with a post from Loose Change on Cairns Participation, have spurred me into taking a closer look at Participation in both regions and the effect this is having on the unemployment rate. To recap; …read more
The ABS release of regional labour market data has shown the Cairns region performed remarkably well in July despite the national and state weakness that we saw last week (see here for our comments at the time). The headline, unadjusted data might appear unbelievably good but when we see through that and …read more
Feelings are running hot in Cairns regarding the proposed Aquis Resort. The anti-Aquis community group Aquis Aware Coalition of Concerned Citizens has publicly released their submission on the Environmental Impact Statement; and they’re obviously not fans. However, while criticising (with some justification) the EIS for its accuracy and content, the group’s …read more
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