INSIGHTS

Australian construction data.
And the qualifiers that decide
what each number means.

Cyberate reads Australia's published construction releases as they come out, and records what has to travel with a figure before it can carry a decision: which series, which cutoff, which boundary version, which quarter. The publishers are ASIC, the ABS, the OAIC, the ATO, the ABCB and the WaterMark Certification Scheme, Safe Work Australia, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Building Commission NSW, the QBCC, the Payment Times Reporting Regulator, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, Consumer and Business Services SA, RESI, the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, the Productivity Commission, the Fair Work Commission, the Victorian legislation register, the National AI Centre and the Australian Building Codes Board.

Figures as published, with the qualifiers that decide them. The two insolvency counts are ASIC Series 1 and Series 2 for the construction division, FY2025-26, data to 9 August 2026, published 24 August 2026 and still provisional; re-read 25 September 2026 against the workbook published 21 September 2026 and unchanged. The productivity figure is the Productivity Commission's, dwellings completed per hour worked over the 30 years from 1994-95 to 2022-23.

  • ASIC Series 1, FY2025-26: 3,472 companies
  • Series 2, same cell and cutoff: 4,439 appointments
  • Dwellings per hour worked: 53% fall

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23 readings of Australia's
published construction data.
19 publishers, each named.

Every reading starts from one published release and ends with the qualifiers that release carries. The set runs from 3 April 2026 to 3 October 2026, and where a figure is derived rather than quoted, the calculation is written out.

6 subject areas: Finance & risk, Compliance & materials, Cost & quoting, Planning & development, AI & data governance, Productivity & technology. Readings publish when the data does, anchored to release calendars and statutory commencement dates.

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Who publishes it,
and how often.

Before a release can be read for a decision, it helps to know when the next one lands and what it is allowed to change.

  • ABS Building Approvals: Monthly, at SA2 and LGA level, free and machine-readable. The finest official granularity that exists for a catchment question.
  • ABS Producer Price Indexes: Quarterly, and roughly a month behind the period they cover. A lagging average, which is why a validity window has to name its quarter.
  • ASIC insolvency statistics: Series 1 and Series 2 weekly, two weeks in arrears, counting different events on the same cell. Series 3 is annual and counts reports, not companies.
  • ABS geography editions: Boundaries are restated between editions, and the published history is restated with them. Edition 4 is adopted in January 2027.
  • NHSAC Quarterly Reports: The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council's running estimate of when the Housing Accord target is reached. Each report can publish a new estimate, so a figure needs the report it came from.
  • Payment Times Reporting: Large businesses report every six months on how they pay small suppliers, and the regulator's aggregates for a closed period can change between its updates.
  • Fair Work Commission Annual Wage Review: Once a year, operative from 1 July, taking effect for each employee from their first full pay period on or after that date.
  • ATO small business benchmarks: Updated each year from tax return data, by industry and turnover band. The set current in September 2026 covers 2023-24.
  • Commonwealth and state commencement dates: APP 1.7 on 10 December 2026, the NSW Fair Trading and Building Amendment Act on 20 August 2026. An obligation has a date before it has guidance.
  • Productivity Commission and RESI research: Irregular, published once and cited for years, so the data window matters more than the release date.

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Questions about the readings.

Which Australian construction datasets does Cyberate read?

Cyberate reads ASIC, the ABS, the OAIC, the ATO, the ABCB and the WaterMark Certification Scheme, Safe Work Australia, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Building Commission NSW, the QBCC, the Payment Times Reporting Regulator, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, Consumer and Business Services SA, RESI, the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, the Productivity Commission, the Fair Work Commission, the Victorian legislation register, the National AI Centre and the Australian Building Codes Board. Price movements and approval counts come from the statistical agency, insolvency events from the corporate regulator, and new obligations from the privacy regulator and the state building regulators. All of it is public, and every reading links the page or file it worked from, with the date that page was read.

What has to travel with a construction statistic before it can carry a decision?

Four things: which series the figure came from, which cutoff date it was read at, which geography or index edition it sits in, and whether the number was published or derived. A figure stored without them cannot be compared against the next release, because recovering them afterwards is guesswork. Storing those four fields beside the number costs nothing at the time and is close to impossible to reconstruct later.

How often do you publish, and what triggers a new reading?

A release triggers the next reading, not a content calendar: a new statistical cube, a weekly regulator refresh that moves a figure, a geography edition being adopted, or a statutory commencement date arriving. The set holds 23 readings, published between 3 April 2026 and 3 October 2026, which is why the dates are uneven.

Do you publish forecasts?

No. Cyberate does not publish construction forecasts. Every reading works on figures that are already published, and says where a calculation is ours rather than the publisher's. Where a reading projects, it is labelled a sensitivity calculation at one observed pace, not a prediction, and the release that would refresh it is named.

How can I check a figure myself?

Open the source the reading names and read the same cell. Each reading carries a Sources screen giving the publisher, the release, the file and the date it was downloaded, so a figure can be recomputed rather than taken on trust. Where our number and a published summary disagree, the reading says so instead of picking one.

Insights that ship
into running systems.

Each reading connects a published statistic to a decision a Cyberate system already helps make - quoting, procurement, compliance, feasibility and reporting.

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