The value of work done on residential building increased by 1.0 per cent in the December quarter, the ABS said this week. This figure is 8 per cent higher than at the same time last year.
The annual results varied widely around the country, from a rise of 19.9 per cent in South Australia, to a 14.2 per cent fall in the Northern Territory. Elsewhere, the results were less dramatic, showing improvement in NSW (up 3.4 per cent), Queensland (6.4 per cent), and Victoria (0.9 per cent), and falls in Tasmania (3.6 per cent), WA (1.9 per cent), and the ACT (2.7 per cent).