Today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics figures means there are more skilled trades people available to help cope with the boom in mining industry construction.
Dwelling approvals
New economic data: no damn good for a government trying to frame a Budget
New economic data suggests an economy marking time — not what the government needed to hear as it works out how heavily to slash expenditure in the Budget.
Housing approvals tank, banks face a tough call
The Australian banks have a difficult decision to make after the rate rise: home lending, their most profitable business, isn’t doing well and housing approvals tanked in December, writes Glenn Dyer.
