Letter
Commonwealth
10 April 2026 Undercounting social housing building statistics
We are writing to express our concern that the Australian Bureau of Statisticsʼ building and construction data—specifically the Building Approvals and Building Activity series—are becoming an increasingly unreliable measure of genuine private sector building activity over the short-to-medium term.
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