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loose change institute: Dredge report dredged
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Saturday, April 18, 2015. The release finally of the Trinity Inlet dredging report. I don't think there is much credit to be attributed anywhere on this one. More than two years and unexplained delays for this? Could I possibly suggest someone should be showing solicitor Brett Moller at Ports North which way the door is? I could post lots here but what's the point? Treasurer Curtis looks to have ditched it anyway. As far as I can see absent environmental aspects ...
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loose change institute: Queensland no longer outstripping nation
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Queensland no longer outstripping nation. Embargoed: 11.30 am (Canberra time). Queensland no longer outstripping nation. Queensland's population growth has slowed to its lowest rate in 15 years, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today. This slower growth is due to a nine year low in the state's net overseas migration and one of the lowest net interstate migration increases in over 30 years. In the sam...
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loose change institute: Airport growth continues in March
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Friday, May 1, 2015. Airport growth continues in March. A late release this month for Cairns Airport statistics for March. Domestic was up 4.9% on March 2014 and International up 2.8%. Monthly Y-o-Y growth for the last five years looks like this with a 12 month moving average:. Note: The most recent CairnsWatch preceded these latest numbers but had previously estimated trend Airport growth in February at 7.7% which was up from 2.1% the previous month. I j...Airport g...
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loose change institute: A Weather Watch Note
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Thursday, April 9, 2015. A Weather Watch Note. Apart from a few bursts it doesn't feel like we have had much of a wet season really. This is monthly rainfall since 2007 at Cairns Aero with a 12 month moving average relative to the red line of the long term monthly average:. 2013 certainly broke the run of previously wetter than average seasons. What period did the Australian Government Actuary use for his insurance study again? Oh, that'd be right! Northside Story co...
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loose change institute: Regional rental trends updated
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Monday, April 27, 2015. Regional rental trends updated. RTA have updated their rental data for the March quarter based on new bonds lodged. The same trends remain apparent with continued weakness in Mackay taking rentals there below both Townsville and Cairns. Cairns continues to establish its position as the high rent capital. A comparison with Darwin may also be interesting to watch with some warning bells starting to be rung for that property market..
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loose change institute: Do you see what I see?
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Do you see what I see? A recent post was noted at Conus on a favourite topic: A look at the gender split in Cairns’ jobs market. This related to a recent post by a former politician and alleged journalist (or should that be the other way around) at Cairns Now: Is it getting harder for women to find jobs in Cairns compared to men? The decline in the Cairns participation rate has been a concern and significant relative to broad declines both ...
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Conus Consultancy Services | Blog
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Jobs data surprises on the upside; even QLD does better. August 18, 2016. The ABS Labour Force data for July shows the headline unemployment rate dropping to 5.7%. Expectations had been stable at 5.8%) with the addition of 26,200 new jobs. Expected 10K). However, all of the strength has come from the part-time sector which added a thumping 71,600. The rate of Trend employment growth has fallen to just 1.8% pa; its slowest pace since June last year. After June was revised to 6.3% from 6.5%). T...Over the ...
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Conus Consultancy Services | Regional Building Approvals a mixed bag
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Regional Building Approvals a mixed bag. August 6, 2015. The regional residential building approvals data for the Far North in June were a bit of a mixed bag. Data released by the ABS this morning shows a total of 59 approvals in Cairns (incl Douglas) after 68 in May; 121 in Townsville after 93 in May; and 13 in the Cassowary Coast after just 9 in May. As always, we have to take these original, unadjusted numbers with a very large grain of salt instead turning our focus to the Conus Trend series. If we c...
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Conus Consultancy Services | Unemployment rate jumps to 6.3% but the data is confusing
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Unemployment rate jumps to 6.3% but the data is confusing. August 6, 2015. The labour force data for July released by the ABS this morning shows the headline (seasonally adjusted) unemployment rate jump to 6.3%. From an upwardly revised 6.1% in June) despite the creation of 38,500 new jobs. The Trend data suggests employment growth running at about 23,700 per month this year, up from 13,200 last year. The headline (seasonally adjusted) data suggest the unemployment rate jumped to 6.5%. With a smaller dat...
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loose change institute: Budget 2015: Pork North?
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Cairns leading think tank since 2014. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Budget 2015: Pork North? A quick reading list which may be progressively updated:. Brisbane Times: Federal Budget 2015: What's in it for Queensland. Gene Tunny: Trajectory to surplus not the same thing as budgeting for a surplus. Stephen Koukoulas: Big-spending Joe Hockey delivers a federal budget that will please no one. Conus: Some good news for small business but the Budget puts off any attempt at fiscal repair. What sort of name is that?
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