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	13 089	13 888	12 999	12 625	12 276
August	12 206	12 751	12 861	12 162	12 276
September	12 134	13 059	13 727	11 231	12 898
October	12 291	12 290	13 990	11 476	12 814
November	12 797	12 710	14 600	10 313
December	12 593	12 628	14 241	9 801
January	12 602	12 581	14 294	9 399
February	12 455	13 358	13 714	10 375
March	13 380	12 861	12 882	11 212
April	12 514	12 769	13 710	11 649
May	13 059	12 313	12 804	10 560
June	13 052	13 000	13 002	11 465
Annual	152 214	153 415	162 732	132 866
Annual change (a) – per cent
July	-8.8	6.1	-6.4	-2.9	-2.8
August	-11.4	4.5	0.9	-5.4	0.9
September	-5.6	7.6	5.1	-18.2	14.8
October	-6.0	0.0	13.8	-18.0	11.7
November	-2.6	-0.7	14.9	-29.4
December	-8.1	0.3	12.8	-31.2
January	-10.1	-0.2	13.6	-34.2
February	-7.1	7.3	2.7	-24.3
March	0.0	-3.9	0.2	-13.0
April	-5.8	2.0	7.4	-15.0
May	-10.7	-5.7	4.0	-17.5
June	-8.7	-0.4	0.0	-11.8
Annual	-7.0	0.8	6.1	-18.4
(a) Monthly figures are seasonally adjusted.
Source: ABS, Building approvals, Cat. No. 8731.0								Update
								6 January 2010