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The release of the December quarter Public Sector work force data (which was released over the weekend) shows (again) that the Government’s fiscal principle of keeping full-time equivalent Public Sector employment growth to that of population growth has not been met. FTE growth in the year to Dec 2018 was +3.0%, well above …read more
The release by the ABS of their original, unadjusted regional labour force data allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trend series for Queensland. What we see is the employment picture improving much better in the Rest of QLD than Greater Brisbane with Cairns now a …read more
A robust labour market report for March has eased pressure on the RBA to cut rates any time soon. Employment lifted 25,700 while the Feb data was revised stronger (seasonally adjusted); Trend data showed a lift of 20,700 with Feb also revised slightly stronger. The unemployment rate remained at 5.0% …read more
The Dept of Employment have released their Small Area Labour Market data for the December quarter. The headline data is presented as a smoothed 4 quarters average at both Local Govt Area and SA2 level. However, hidden in the release is the original, unsmoothed, data and from that we create the Conus Trend …read more
The release of ABS regional labour force data for Feb allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend series; and it shows us a very strong picture emerging in Cairns. Last month we saw some unbelievably low unemployment data in the original data-set from the ABS for Cairns …read more
Yesterday’s release of the Feb Labour Force data from the ABS seemed to suggest that, just as the growth in Australian jobs appears to have stabilised, there might finally be some better news for Queensland. The national data showed an additional 4,600 (seasonally adjusted) were added to the number employed …read more
A few weeks ago we wrote a post on some work we had done breaking down changes in Participation Rates in QLD regions to discover the impact that changes to the age profile of the working population had (you can read that here). That post attracted some interest and one …read more
Today’s release of the December 2018 Labour Account data series provides a wealth of data. One thing it allows us to do is take a look at incomes across various industry sectors and how they have changed in the past 12 months. The table below shows, for selected industries, the …read more
Pete spoke to Kier Shorey on ABC Far North this morning about the (unbelievable) unemployment data that was released last week (read commentary here), and he highlighted that although we can safely ignore the unemployment data, which is sure to be revised in coming months, the Conus/CBC Staff Selection Trend …read more
The ABS release of their January original, unadjusted regional Labour Force data this morning allows us to update our own Conus/CBC Staff Selection Regional Employment Trend series; and it holds some surprisingly positive news for Cairns. But first, looking more broadly across the state we see Greater Brisbane has added …read more
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