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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... flock has been forecast to fall by about 5.5 per cent this year to its lowest level since 1947. Last year the national drought affected the wheat crop so heavily that it was reduced by 64 per cent although the present good rains promise an excellent ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... detracted from the result to the order of 0.3 per cent. This latter result is what we have been expecting given the national drought. Farm production is down by 11.2 per cent over the quarter to now be 22.8 per cent below the figure of a year ago. There ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
The impact of the drought on the Australian economy is set to worsen and the government has just revised up its forecasts noting that the summer crop is likely to be the worst in more than two decades with a reduction of the order of about 60 per cent. ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... About 25 per cent of executives anticipate an increase in profits while 31 per cent are expecting a fall. The national drought is said to have had a negative impact upon a third of respondents and about 5 per cent say that its impact is very negative. ...

Save money, save water: X Inc

As interest in climate change and the long-running drought gather pace, mortgage aggregator X Inc Finance has joined the green campaign through a $500 Watercare rebate. X Inc is giving a $500 rebate per successful mortgage application to buy water saving ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... expects the value of mining exports to increase by about 20 per cent to $111 billion in 2006-07 which will counteract the drought that is expected to reduce rural exports by 8 per cent. Australia's economic growth has had downstream effects on discretionary ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has again revised its estimates of the impact of the national drought which is now expected to impact about 60 per cent of the nation's arable land as opposed to the forecast of 40 per ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... levels since its inception. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revised its estimate of the impact of the national drought on GDP which it now expects to fall by about 0.5 per cent in 2006-07 compared to the earlier forecast of 0.8 per cent of GDP. ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... private inventories. Non-farm GDP increased by 0.6 per cent reflecting that the result has been weighed down by the national drought. Total inventories decreased by $1,192 million in seasonally adjusted terms following the $899 million decrease over ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... of a slowing national economy as retail sales remain flat, new motor vehicle sales volatile and softening, a national drought now expected to yield 60 per cent less agricultural crops than last year and a housing market that has peaked. Visiting Morgan ...