Total dwelling approvals fell 6.1% in August 2026, but house approvals rose to 10,885, the highest since 2021. The ABS numbers behind the split.

The RBA lifted the cash rate to 4.60% on 29 September. How the fourth rise of 2026 reaches signed jobs through construction loans, finance and variati ...

A three person Macedon Ranges builder with a year of work ahead explains why he treats the code as a starting point and turns down jobs that do not fi ...

Bricks, cement and glass are fired with gas. Queensland has opened new Taroom Trough acreage, and the supply timeline runs to 2030.

NSW will fund training for 950 council assessment officers as DA determination targets tighten to 90 days. What the program fixes, and what it does no ...

A $5 million TAFE centre at Alexandra Hills targets the capstone queue, the point where electrical apprentices now wait to get signed off.

Victoria has set rules making data centres fund their own grid and water upgrades. Housing has no equivalent rule, and it is the same network capacity ...

Queensland declared three steel projects worth $1.9 billion as Prescribed Projects. What the declaration does, and why the rebar does not land until 2 ...

A detailed comparison of the two biggest cost shocks to hit Australian construction in living memory, and what the lessons of one tell us about surviving the other. The comparison gets made constantly ...

Australian construction reports AI at scale at nearly twice the global rate, yet ranks below global peers on productivity confidence.

Queensland’s top 100 builders wrote fewer contracts in FY2025/26 yet lifted total value 4.9%. What that says about how building businesses measure g ...