1318.3 - Qld Stats, Aug 2007
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 20/08/2007
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Retail Trade New Motor Vehicle Sales Private New Capital Expenditure RETAIL TRADE The June 2007 trend estimate for Queensland's retail turnover was $3,961.5 million, a 9.3% increase compared with June 2006. Food retailing accounted for 40% of total retail turnover in June 2007 and Hospitality and service industries turnover contributed 17%. The Queensland industry groups with the largest percentage increases in retail turnover (trend) in the twelve months to June 2007 were Household goods, rising 17% to $616.9 million and Recreational goods rising 15% to $170.4 million. The Clothing and soft goods industry group recorded the greatest decrease in retail turnover for the same period, falling by -1.9% to $257.5 million. Further information about this topic can be accessed at Retail Trade, Australia (cat. no. 8501.0) or ring the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. This publication is released monthly.NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES In trend terms, 10,935 new passenger vehicles and 19,477 vehicles in total were sold in June 2007 in Queensland. Corresponding sales for Australia were 53,384 and 86,887.
Further information about new motor vehicle sales can be accessed from Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia (cat no. 9314.0) or ring the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. This publication is released monthly.PRIVATE NEW CAPITAL EXPENDITURE Telstra Corporation was effectively privatised on 20 November 2006. For the purposes of ABS statistics, this change from public sector to private sector is effective from March quarter 2007. This change has impacted on the data series available for private new capital expenditure. Trend series data is not available for publication for March quarter 2007. For more information please see Information Paper: Future Treatment of Telstra in ABS Statistics, 2007 (cat. no. 8102.0).
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