Monthly Statistical Bulletin
4.3 Dwelling approvals
Month	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008-09
Number (a)
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July	14 357	13 045	13 947	13 114	12 503
August	13 793	12 260	12 901	13 081	12 054
September	12 988	12 309	13 179	14 065	11 339
October	13 159	12 536	12 562	14 510	10 730
November	13 102	12 749	12 808	14 618
December	13 615	12 438	12 250	13 780
January	13 916	12 388	12 321	13 986
February	13 300	12 340	13 314	13 439
March	13 259	13 258	12 636	12 544
April	13 284	12 561	12 891	13 874
May	14 551	13 037	12 365	12 548
June	14 365	13 059	12 881	12 706
Annual	163 627	152 214	153 415	162 020
Annual change (a) – per cent
July	-6.3	-9.1	6.9	-6.0	-4.7
August	-6.9	-11.1	5.2	1.4	-7.9
September	-21.3	-5.2	7.1	6.7	-19.4
October	-21.3	-4.7	0.2	15.5	-26.1
November	-12.6	-2.7	0.5	14.1
December	-9.7	-8.6	-1.5	12.5
January	-6.4	-11.0	-0.5	13.5
February	-9.7	-7.2	7.9	0.9
March	-14.4	0.0	-4.7	-0.7
April	-13.0	-5.4	2.6	7.6
May	-3.6	-10.4	-5.2	1.5
June	-1.4	-9.1	-1.4	-1.4
Annual	-11.3	-7.0	0.8	5.6
(a) Monthly figures are seasonally adjusted.
Source: ABS, Building approvals, Cat. No. 8731.0								Update
								8 January 2009