According to ABC News, the slump in the construction sector has worsened.
Construction overall decreased by 3.8% in the three months to June. Over the year, it dropped by 11%, with total work reaching its lowest level in over two years.
Residential construction experienced the largest decline, with a decline of 5.1% for the quarter and close to 10% for the year.
This is the fourth consecutive quarter of housing construction.
Engineering works fail to offset the property recession, falling by 1% for the June quarter and 16% for the year.
Construction at ACT, New South Wales and Victoria declined for the third consecutive quarter, while construction in South Australia declined for the fourth consecutive quarter.
In Queensland, construction declined for the fifth consecutive quarter. Western Australia recorded a decline in construction for the sixth consecutive quarter, while the Northern Territory recorded a decline for the seventh consecutive quarter.
Meanwhile, Tasmania reported only two consecutive quarters of declining activity in the construction sector.
According to Andrew Hanlan, economist at Westpac, the slowdown in the housing construction cycle, the downturn in public works and the slowdown in private infrastructure activities by the mining sector have affected the recession, affected crisis.
"The construction sector represents about 13% of the economy, this result will weigh on the GDP of the second quarter, potentially of the order of 0.4 percentage point", he declares.
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