Event Australian Economic Outlook Conference 2025 A new era of challenges: The risk pendulum swings from fighting inflation to navigating trade tensions and kickstarting productivity growth. 17, 24, 29 September 2025 Sydney, Melbourne & Online With inflation easing, new challenges are coming to the forefront-fractured global trade, declining productivity, and a softening global economy. For … Read more
Investment drives economic growth, but in recent years, the Australian economy has been dependent on growth in public investment while growth in private investment has flatlined. Over the second half of the 2020s, this trend is expected to reverse, with rising private investment stirring stronger economic outcomes, but also driving changes in the pattern and volume of construction activity.
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The past month has been relatively quiet compared to the flurry of activity following the ‘liberation day’ tariff announcements in the US.
The 2025/26 Victorian Budget offers little to change the near-term outlook for construction activity, as high debt levels constrain the state’s ability to fund new projects.
As was widely expected, the RBA cut the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85% at the May meeting.
Australian CBD office property capital values have taken a battering since mid-2022, falling by an average 18% for prime assets. In the process, capital values have fallen below replacement cost in many markets, which is constraining new commencements.
Saturday’s Federal Election decisively delivered a second term for the Albanese government, clearing up the policy outlook.
Headline engineering construction work done rose 4.7% year-on-year to $36.5bn over the December 2024 quarter, driven by strong growth in utility and mining work.
Retail sales growth was steady at 0.3% m/m in March. Sales were lower in Queensland due to the impact of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred but were relatively strong across the other regions.
Anthony Albanese has decidedly won a second term as Prime Minister, with the Labor party set to form a majority government.
