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Over the years we’ve got used to Bob Katter’s rather eccentric views and often distorted view of the world. In a piece in today’s Innisfail Advocate he rails against the Federal budget for apparently not stopping “600,000 migrants a year” from taking our jobs. He then points to an “additional …read more
The ABS jobs data for March has come in a lot stronger than anticipated with the headline unemployment rate falling to 6.1%. The market had been looking for a total of about 15,000 jobs to be added in March, in fact the data shows a huge 37,700 new positions (31,500 …read more
Today saw the release of the annual Regional Population Estimates from the ABS. The ABS produce these numbers at both Local Government, SA2 and State Electoral Division level. The results show the estimated CCRC resident population in 2014 at 28,705 which is a 0.1% increase over 2013. Since 2011 the estimated population has increased by just 0.2% …read more
An article in the Business Spectator from Adam Carr is suggesting that the labour force data released yesterday is actually much better than it might at first appear. Carr’s argument is that the seasonal adjustment process employed by the ABS (which has certainly been under a cloud recently) is nothing …read more
Following on from our previous post (see here), we have now had time to take a look at the data to determine what has been going on with Cairns youth employment and population data. First we should acknowledge that the data-set which the ABS will be using when looking at …read more
We didn’t have time to look at the youth unemployment data from the ABS on Thursday until today. The headline (and wildly volatile) un-adjusted data for January showed an increase in the unemployment rate of 15-24 year olds at 24.9% (up from 23.9% in Dec), a sharp fall in Participation …read more
Data released this morning by the ABS shows that in the first quarter of 2014 the population growth rate in Queensland fell below the national average. Total Queensland population increased by 1.6% from the previous year to 4,708,510. The nation as a whole saw growth of 1.7% to 23,425,741. The …read more
Today saw the (delayed) release of the National Regional Profile for 2008-’12. The full detail is available on the ABS website here. Among the mountain of data contained in 8 large spreadsheets are numbers on population by Local Government Area (LGA) as well as by Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2). SA2’s and …read more
Following on from this morning’s post on the latest ABS Regional Population data (see here) I have taken some time to look at the data for the Cassowary Coast in a little more detail. The data quoted in the first post relates to Local Government Areas and notes a decline …read more
The ABS has released regional population estimates (as of end June 2013) this morning which show Townsville as the stand-out growth winner in the North.Total population in Australia was estimated at 23.1 million, an increase of 407,000 (+1.8%) over the year to June 2013. QLD enjoyed the third fastest growth …read more
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