Summary: This publication was released on 29 April 2014 and in this edition the Commission analyses the latest ABS productivity statistics and comments on new developments underlying Australia's recent productivity performance.

Features in this edition are:

• 2013 Australian productivity
• the effect of price on productivity
• insights from recent productivity research — Productivity in Manufacturing.

Future editions of the update will come out in the March quarter of each year. Each edition will unpack the latest ABS productivity statistics, and report on the findings of the Commission's most recent research into productivity issues.