Monthly Statistical Bulletin
4.3 Dwelling approvals
Month	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Number (a)
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July	13 100	13 934	12 962	12 562	12 301
August	12 244	12 702	12 911	12 199	12 285
September	12 110	13 033	13 696	11 171	13 040
October	12 315	12 250	14 088	11 515	13 233
November	12 775	12 714	14 512	10 308	14 360
December	12 530	12 581	14 199	9 759	15 106
January	12 631	12 749	14 460	9 516	14 045
February	12 457	13 364	13 733	10 378
March	13 415	12 824	12 952	11 201
April	12 487	12 807	13 673	11 640
May	13 111	12 264	12 793	10 581
June	13 029	13 006	13 035	11 410
Annual	152 214	153 415	162 732	132 865
Annual change (a) – per cent
July	-8.6	6.4	-7.0	-3.1	-2.1
August	-11.1	3.7	1.6	-5.5	0.7
September	-5.9	7.6	5.1	-18.4	16.7
October	-5.8	-0.5	15.0	-18.3	14.9
November	-2.6	-0.5	14.1	-29.0	39.3
December	-8.4	0.4	12.9	-31.3	54.8
January	-10.3	0.9	13.4	-34.2	47.6
February	-7.1	7.3	2.8	-24.4
March	0.8	-4.4	1.0	-13.5
April	-5.9	2.6	6.8	-14.9
May	-10.2	-6.5	4.3	-17.3
June	-8.9	-0.2	0.2	-12.5
Annual	-7.0	0.8	6.1	-18.4
(a) Monthly figures are seasonally adjusted.
Source: ABS, Building approvals, Cat. No. 8731.0								Update
								31 March 2010