Statistics
A further continued fall in personal insolvencies
Following my October 2024 report, below, that personal insolvencies dropped in number in each of July, August and September 2024, ...
Personal insolvency numbers
AFSA has reported that personal insolvencies increased in the September quarter 2024 compared to September quarter 2023. That is, there ...
Insolvency trends – should they be higher?
Recent figures show trends in insolvencies in Australia – nothing too significant at a macro level though distressing at a ...
Personal insolvency figures up and ‘reforms’ pending
Personal insolvencies increased in July 2024, to 1157 compared with the lows of 851 in June 2024, and 929 in ...
Insolvency numbers in decline
Numbers of insolvencies of individuals and companies have fallen dramatically over the years, which we may find represents a fundamental ...
“Personal insolvencies increased in May 2024…” – by 3
AFSA reports that “personal insolvencies increased in May 2024”. They did – by 3 more than in April 2024. Personal ...
Personal insolvency numbers suffer a slight rise
There is not much to report from the latest personal insolvency figures, save for continued small increases over time. It ...
Small business sole trader insolvencies
A recent newspaper report on the trend of insolvencies in small business was interesting for the reason that it acknowledged ...
Personal insolvency figures – December 2023
Numbers of personal insolvencies in Australia continue to fall with the December 2023 figure down to 805 compared with 853 ...
Insolvency statistics 2023
Each of our insolvency regulators, ASIC for corporate, AFSA for personal, has issued its statistics for 2022-2023 right on the ...
Bankruptcy statistics – more of the same
With the annual personal insolvency statistics for 2022-2023 not yet released, AFSA has released figures for October 2023, showing 951 ...
Personal insolvency numbers – July-Sept 2023
With the annual personal insolvency statistics for 2022-2023 not due until December 2023, AFSA has released a quarterly report for ...
Marginal annual increase in personal insolvencies said to be in line with high numbers forecast
There was a total of 9,930 personal insolvencies in Australia in the 2022–23 financial year – around 4% higher than ...
Increase in Australian insolvency numbers
Personal insolvency numbers show a continued increase in numbers but still well below past figures; on the other hand, corporate ...
Personal insolvency statistics – March quarter increase; April monthly decrease
There is good and bad news in the latest personal insolvency statistics from AFSA. March quarter increase The full March ...
Personal insolvency statistics – March 2023 – beginnings of an increase?
The latest personal insolvency statistics released by AFSA for March 2023 show an increase in number over February but still ...
Bankruptcy data 2021-2022 – rates of return, fees etc
At the end of 2022, AFSA quietly released detailed data on the operation of the personal insolvency system in 2021-2022. ...
Insolvency returns to creditors and other fictions – reissued March 2022
Insolvencies average dividend returns to unsecured creditors of under 5 cents in the dollar, in some cases, under 1 cent. ...
Australian bankruptcy statistics 2019-2021
Numbers of Australia’s 3 year long bankruptcies were down 46.7% in 2020-2021, producing an average dividend of only 1.63c/$. The ...
High level of business bankruptcies in construction and retail
Latest figures show that nearly 60% of personal bankruptcies in the construction industry were involved in a business, with those ...
Data Availability and Transparency Bill and Australia’s SME insolvency reforms
Following on some decades of government inattention to the collection of adequate statistical data in insolvency, but with law reforms ...
Australian bankruptcies – falling numbers continue into the new financial year
The dramatic annual fall in personal insolvencies in Australia to 30 June 2020 has continued with the second half of ...
Australian bankruptcies fall 42% over the ‘virus’ quarter
Australian personal insolvencies in 2019-2020 have continued to fall, quite dramatically, of over 23% on last year, and over 35% ...
Down and down – Australian personal insolvency numbers
The first fortnight of July (29 June to 12 July) saw a drop down from 611 to 587 of people ...
