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The annual Business Count data for the financial year 2015-16 shows the Cassowary Coast (consisting of the three SA2 areas Innisfail, Johnstone and Tully {which includes Mission Beach and Cardwell}) lost 94 businesses between 2013-14 and 2015-16. This corresponds to a 2.9% decline across the entire region; although Johnstone saw …read more
Earlier this week Pete had a piece in The Cairns Post talking about the recovery in place in the Cassowary Coast (see below). This was followed up today by a chat on radio 4CA with John MacKenzie, which you can listen to below.
Today’s release of the regional building approvals data for November from the ABS doesn’t provide any good news for our region (not surprising given the general weakness at a state level seen last week…see here for details). The unadjusted regional data is best seen through the prism of the Conus …read more
The release by the Dept of Employment of their Small Area Labour Market (SALM) data for the third quarter to Sept 2016 confirms the weaker story that we’ve been seeing in Townsville. The SALM data is based on a range of indicators including ABS Labour Force data for the SA4 areas, …read more
ABS released their monthly unadjusted regional building approvals data for October this morning and we have updated our own Conus Trend series. Given the declines at a state level it is little surprise to see Trend approvals in our region also falling. At the SA4 level we see Cairns Trend …read more
Yesterday saw the release of the regional ABS Regional Building Approvals data for June. Having completed the Conus Trend analysis we can see that there is very little joy for the North in the numbers (not much of a surprise given the weakness in the State data…see commentary from last …read more
The CCRC Budget for 2016-17 was handed down at a meeting yesterday with the full details now available on the Council’s website. General Rates see a 1.95% increase while the total increase in Rates and Utility Charges is 2.21%. Previous budgets had assumed increases in total Rates and Utility Charges …read more
Today saw the handing down of the Cassowary Coast Regional Council’s 2016/17 $74.4 million Budget, the first under the newly elected Council. The headline increase in general rates is 1.95% which is the lowest since amalgamation (last year was +2.95%). With increases in charges the average increase to rates and …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
We are proud to have CBC Staff Selection as supporters of the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend Employment and Jobseeker data series