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Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... residential dwellings in Australia rose $449.9 billion to $8293.2 billion this quarter. This, according to the national statistician is "the largest rise on record for this series. The mean price of residential dwellings in Australia was $779,000 up ...

Chief economist update: Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
Australians all let us rejoice! Less than a week before the country celebrates its day, the National Statistician released its latest survey of the domestic labour market... and it was good. "In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair." ...

The 2016 Census as a guide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... future holds, the ABS Census provides a projection of the number of households five, 10 and 20 years out. The national statistician estimates that the number of households will increase by 9.3% to 2021 - using the current ratio of 2.6% persons per household ...

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) would be pleased with the National Statistician's latest update on residential property prices. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures that showed the weighted ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... writing, the A$ is fetching around US$0.7350 - after appreciating from US$0.7175 to US$0.7295 after the National Statistician released the Australian economy's scorecard that showed much higher growth than expected in the last quarter of 2015. The A$ ...

Another Aussie jobs surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... reliability of the ABS' labour market data, the improvement is consistent with the "Job Vacancies" report the National Statistician released a day earlier. Job vacancies increased by 3.5% to 167,600 in the November quarter - the most since the three-month ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... trend seen over recent months." There goes the recession we longed to have. Recall the headlines when the National Statistician released the "recessionary" first quarter capex data a few weeks back? "Recession, here we come" was the order of that day. ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... deflation threat in the eurozone. Worry, worry, worry... that's all we do. You want more? There's one more. The national statistician will today release its estimate on how the economy did in the third quarter. Consensus expectations are for real GDP ...

Unbelievably beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... finger? Or have all our bright and talented economists got their models stupendously wrong? Or have the National Statistician? But according to the ABS, "The ABS is aware that the seasonally adjusted increase in employment in August 2014, particularly ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... just no pleasing us, Australians all, is there? Australians all let's not rejoice. No! Don't rejoice at National Statistician's official count that the economy of this land girt by sea expanded by 1.1% in the March quarter - stronger than consensus expectations ...
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