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DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(b)	NT(b)	ACT(b)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend(a)	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted	28 098	23 150	19 503	6 013	9 088	1 777	802	1 310	89 741
Change from previous month (%)
Trend(a)	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted	5.6	-1.3	5.5	4.5	2.6	17.9	-9.3	-0.9	3.3
Change from previous year (%)
Trend(a)	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted	22.1	13.9	19.3	22.1	6.4	31.9	-4.0	3.4	17.2
(a) Trend series temporarily suspended from May 2009. (b) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

• Following the Federal Government Budget in May 2009, the eligibility period for the Small Business and General Business Tax Break was extended to December 2009. The rebate level was also increased for small businesses, allowing eligible businesses to claim an increased tax deduction on the purchase of new motor vehicles.
• The trend series attempts to measure the underlying behaviour in new motor vehicle sales. In the short term, this measurement may be significantly affected by unusual influences in the original and seasonally adjusted data, like those observed in May and June 2009. If the trend estimates in the publication were to be calculated without fully accounting for this irregular event, they would be likely to provide a misleading view of the underlying trend in new motor vehicle sales activity.
• The new motor vehicle sales trend series has therefore been suspended from May 2009. The trend series will be reintroduced when more certainty emerges in the underlying behaviour of new car sales.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates can still be produced and will continue to be published as usual.
• This publication shows the trend series to April 2009 and seasonally adjusted series to December 2009.

• Trend - See Suspension of trend estimates above.
• Seasonally Adjusted - The December 2009 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (89 741) increased by 3.3% when compared to November 2009. The December 2009 seasonally adjusted estimate for total new motor vehicle sales increased by 17.2% when compared to the December 2008 estimate.

• Trend - See Suspension of trend estimates above.
• Seasonally adjusted - When comparing December 2009 with November 2009, Other vehicles increased by 14.2% and Sports utility vehicles increased by 3.8%. Passenger vehicles has decreased by 1.6% over the same period. When comparing December 2009 to December 2008, Other vehicles increased by 38.6%, Sports utility vehicles increased by 36.7% and Passenger vehicles increased by 3.0%

• Trend - See Suspension of trend estimates above.
• Seasonally adjusted - Sales of new motor vehicles increased for five of eight states or territories in seasonally adjusted terms for December 2009 compared to November 2009. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage increase, rising by 17.9%, followed by New South Wales and Queensland, with increases of 5.6% and 5.5% respectively. The Northern Territory reported the largest decrease of 9.3% when comparing December 2009 to November 2009.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle
		Count Passenger vehicles	Count Sports utility vehicles	Count Other vehicles	Count Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend(a)
2008
	October	46 164	14 436	17 602	78 202	-2.1	-2.5	-1.7	-2.1
	November	45 340	14 178	17 148	76 666	-1.8	-1.8	-2.6	-2.0
	December	44 606	14 032	16 582	75 221	-1.6	-1.0	-3.3	-1.9
2009
	January	43 944	13 992	16 027	73 962	-1.5	-0.3	-3.4	-1.7
	February	43 413	14 037	15 572	73 023	-1.2	0.3	-2.8	-1.3
	March	43 142	14 178	15 263	72 583	-0.6	1.0	-2.0	-0.6
	April	43 233	14 371	15 099	72 703	0.2	1.4	-1.1	0.2
	May	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	June	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	July	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	August	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	September	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	October	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	November	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	December	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted
2008
	October	46 125	14 364	18 687	79 176	-2.0	-4.1	5.8	-0.7
	November	44 392	13 678	16 740	74 810	-3.8	-4.8	-10.4	-5.5
	December	45 396	14 316	16 889	76 602	2.3	4.7	0.9	2.4
2009
	January	45 226	14 296	15 777	75 299	-0.4	-0.1	-6.6	-1.7
	February	43 521	14 109	15 047	72 677	-3.8	-1.3	-4.6	-3.5
	March	41 313	13 634	15 476	70 423	-5.1	-3.4	2.9	-3.1
	April	42 792	14 307	15 033	72 132	3.6	4.9	-2.9	2.4
	May	44 184	15 329	17 156	76 668	3.3	7.1	14.1	6.3
	June	45 034	16 382	20 000	81 417	1.9	6.9	16.6	6.2
	July	45 442	15 143	14 749	75 333	0.9	-7.6	-26.3	-7.5
	August	45 547	14 915	14 877	75 339	0.2	-1.5	0.9	-
	September	46 527	15 319	16 692	78 538	2.2	2.7	12.2	4.2
	October	46 995	16 342	18 704	82 041	1.0	6.7	12.0	4.5
	November	47 543	18 848	20 498	86 888	1.2	15.3	9.6	5.9
	December	46 770	19 568	23 404	89 741	-1.6	3.8	14.2	3.3
Original
2008
	October	45 978	14 357	18 770	79 105	-5.9	1.1	5.0	-2.3
	November	43 019	12 736	15 862	71 617	-6.4	-11.3	-15.5	-9.5
	December	45 696	14 422	16 392	76 510	6.2	13.2	3.3	6.8
2009
	January	41 309	13 435	12 335	67 079	-9.6	-6.8	-24.7	-12.3
	February	42 463	13 699	14 079	70 241	2.8	2.0	14.1	4.7
	March	43 484	15 022	17 144	75 650	2.4	9.7	21.8	7.7
	April	36 697	13 092	14 176	63 965	-15.6	-12.8	-17.3	-15.4
	May	42 245	15 562	17 634	75 441	15.1	18.9	24.4	17.9
	June	55 837	20 459	26 551	102 847	32.2	31.5	50.6	36.3
	July	46 099	14 752	14 482	75 333	-17.4	-27.9	-45.5	-26.8
	August	44 918	13 972	14 397	73 287	-2.6	-5.3	-0.6	-2.7
	September	47 284	14 443	16 404	78 131	5.3	3.4	13.9	6.6
	October	46 544	15 741	18 528	80 813	-1.6	9.0	12.9	3.4
	November	47 059	18 360	20 414	85 833	1.1	16.6	10.2	6.2
	December	46 623	19 616	22 469	88 708	-0.9	6.8	10.1	3.3
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) (a) Trend series temporarily suspended from May 2009.

New motor vehicle sales by state/territory of registration
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(b)	NT(b)	ACT(b)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend(a)
2008
	October	23 574	20 526	16 334	5 098	9 141	1 488	835	1 208	78 202
	November	23 165	20 113	16 072	4 972	8 878	1 444	810	1 212	76 666
	December	22 814	19 750	15 797	4 843	8 607	1 410	780	1 220	75 221
2009
	January	22 519	19 418	15 549	4 725	8 375	1 398	750	1 227	73 962
	February	22 306	19 164	15 346	4 636	8 213	1 402	728	1 228	73 023
	March	22 243	19 035	15 248	4 595	8 117	1 410	714	1 221	72 583
	April	22 355	19 053	15 280	4 606	8 070	1 412	715	1 212	72 703
	May	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	June	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	July	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	August	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	September	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	October	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	November	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
	December	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np	np
Seasonally Adjusted
2008
	October	23 755	20 929	16 520	5 156	9 391	1 437	799	1 189	79 176
	November	22 850	19 327	15 563	4 956	8 637	1 477	803	1 197	74 810
	December	23 010	20 327	16 347	4 927	8 542	1 347	835	1 268	76 602
2009
	January	22 827	20 031	15 748	4 803	8 470	1 430	753	1 238	75 299
	February	22 352	18 831	15 426	4 409	8 284	1 374	750	1 251	72 677
	March	21 563	18 616	14 482	4 622	7 916	1 448	618	1 158	70 423
	April	22 350	18 581	15 281	4 557	8 009	1 389	723	1 243	72 132
	May	23 459	20 378	16 103	4 943	8 381	1 445	753	1 206	76 668
	June	24 862	21 490	17 335	5 182	8 880	1 539	742	1 387	81 417
	July	23 303	19 987	15 946	4 855	7 938	1 301	795	1 209	75 333
	August	23 699	19 232	16 125	4 875	7 974	1 455	771	1 208	75 339
	September	24 396	20 644	16 926	5 232	7 995	1 354	762	1 230	78 538
	October	25 024	21 783	17 586	5 565	8 510	1 504	767	1 302	82 041
	November	26 619	23 456	18 487	5 755	8 858	1 508	884	1 322	86 888
	December	28 098	23 150	19 503	6 013	9 088	1 777	802	1 310	89 741
Original
2008
	October	23 448	21 337	16 024	5 069	9 850	1 478	750	1 149	79 105
	November	22 043	18 756	14 111	4 935	8 284	1 575	743	1 170	71 617
	December	22 421	20 792	16 163	5 028	8 416	1 660	751	1 279	76 510
2009
	January	21 085	17 493	13 521	4 355	7 648	1 234	588	1 155	67 079
	February	21 969	18 273	14 604	4 336	7 864	1 227	706	1 262	70 241
	March	23 550	19 503	16 124	4 779	8 329	1 388	718	1 259	75 650
	April	19 596	16 395	13 801	4 128	7 043	1 146	772	1 084	63 965
	May	22 958	19 995	15 884	5 025	8 150	1 404	851	1 174	75 441
	June	31 089	26 508	23 509	6 406	10 838	1 814	991	1 692	102 847
	July	23 472	19 884	16 403	4 632	7 817	1 184	761	1 180	75 333
	August	22 704	18 848	15 661	4 696	8 003	1 476	723	1 176	73 287
	September	24 367	20 857	16 255	5 141	8 217	1 382	698	1 214	78 131
	October	24 251	21 989	16 830	5 506	8 763	1 520	696	1 258	80 813
	November	26 559	23 417	17 719	5 698	8 702	1 619	810	1 309	85 833
	December	26 848	23 398	18 995	6 213	8 967	2 242	737	1 308	88 708
(a) Trend series temporarily suspended from May 2009. (b) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.