NSW and Victoria added to the Conus Trend Regional Jobs database

For some time we have been working to expand our Conus Trend Regional Jobs database and are pleased to announce that we now have our full Conus Trend data available for NSW and Victoria to add to our previous QLD data. Following future ABS Regional Labour Force data releases we …read more

Pete on 4CA talking about the latest regional jobs data

Pete was on Radio 4CA this morning talking to John MacKenzie about the latest release of the Conus Trend Regional Jobs data. Listen below…

Impact of Gold and Sunshine Coast data on Rest of Queensland

Following on from the Sept Conus Trend Regional QLD labour force data there has been some discussion among readers (and on Twitter) regarding the impact of the Gold and Sunshine Coast changes in employment on the noted divergence between Greater Brisbane and Rest of Queensland full time positions (see the …read more

Dept of Social Service payment data confirms improvement in Cairns

Three weeks ago I wrote about some initial analysis of Dept of Social Service allowance payment data. Since then I have been in touch with the Dept to obtain some older data and they have also released their latest numbers for September; so here’s a more complete and up-to-date look …read more

Regional job improvements; but Townsville is all down to falling Participation

The ABS release of original regional labour force data for September, as always, needs to be considered in light of the Conus Trend to make much sense of what can be very volatile data. In Cairns we see the Conus Trend unemployment rate fall to 8.4% (after an unrevised 8.7% …read more

Unemployment rate drops on fall in Participation

The September labour force data saw the headline, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Australia fall to 5.6% (after August was revised up from 5.6% to 5.7%) despite a loss of 9,800 (and a loss of 53,000 full-time) positions. The reason for the decline can be laid squarely at the decline …read more

Dept of Social Services allowance payment data supports the better news for Cairns

We have taken some time to analyse the Dept. of Social Service data set for payments of Newstart and Youth Allowances since Dec 2011. When looking at data for our region we have summed the totals for the Atherton, Cairns, Innisfail, Mareeba, Mossman and Yarrabah Service Zones. These Service Zones, …read more

A decade of change in employment in Cairns

Analysing the ABS quarterly data on the industry make-up of employment in the Cairns SA4 region shows us clearly that over the past decade the two big winners have been Health Care and Education. Our biggest loser has been Retail Trade (for more details see our post from last week). …read more

What a recovering region looks like…Mackay

On ABC North Queensland yesterday Pat Hession asked Pete what we should be looking for when things in Townsville start to turn-around (you can listen to the full interview here). It’s an interesting question and perhaps best answered by taking a close look at a region just to the south of Townsville …read more

Pete on ABC North Queensland

Pete spoke to Pat Hession on ABC North Queensland this afternoon about the unemployment situation in Townsville. You can hear the segment below.

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