Key Points: 

• Labour promises to regulate labour hire. 
• Liberals pledge to aid local councils to resist low to mid-rise developments. 
• One Nation promises to slash payroll tax.
• Labour's electoral lead seems contingent on Coalition and One Nation not doing a preference deal. 

The NSW State Election will be held...

Key points: 

• Nationally, the current residential pipeline is holding up but it is softer in NSW
• NSW Building Approvals point to a worrying outlook looming for home builders. 
• The value of residential work done rose nationally to more than $45b. 
• The impact of interest rate rises and fuel price...

Key Points: 

• Latest RBA interest rate decision has hit consumer confidence hard. 
• Westpac survey says confidence at its lowest level since early 90s recession. 
• NAB survey says continuing high levels of employment continue to keep household spending high pointing to a dilemma for the Federal Government and RBA. 
• Housing confidence...

ABS Civil Construction Activity 

Engineering construction activity fell by 4.7 per cent during the June 2026 quarter. 

Other key national stats include: 

Seasonally adjusted work done for the private sector fell 7.4%

Value of work commenced rose 20.7% in original terms

Trend work done rose 0.5%
 

For...

High Inflation Hits NSW Building Activity - Latest Building Approvals and Inflation Data

Building Approvals for August: 

The latest ABS Building Approvals data for August shows that high inflation is hitting building activity and should sharpen bullders' concerns that the Federal Government's economic management is failing. 

In NSW, overall building...

On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank raised interest rates for the 4^th time this year with additional hikes in rates anticipated for later this year and potentially early 2027. 

Official interest rates are now the highest that have been for 15 years, and Australia now has the second highest...

Media Release

Today’s interest rate rise means NSW builders and households are again being forced to pay for the failure of the Federal Government’s economic management.

“It is not fair that NSW households and businesses are being left to do the heavy lifting to get inflation under control. They...

The latest data on building trade apprenticeships released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is encouraging for the industry. However, the positive news is overshadowed by the prospect of even more inflationary pressure and its negative impact on the level of building activity. 

Nationally, 16,018 new...

Key Points:

• Economic conditions continue to worsen according to the latest survey data from  Roy Morgan, ANZ and NAB.
• RBA Assistant Governor says the central bank expects home building activity to be low in 2027 and 2028.
• Construction and mining lead the collapse in business confidence in August 2026 compared...

Key Points: 

• NSW is by far the largest data centre market in Australia, with Sydney accounting for the majority (65%) of the country's operational capacity and construction pipeline.

• NSW accounted for roughly two-thirds of Australia's data centre construction activity in 2025, implying an estimated construction value of approximately AUD 11...