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Australia's confidence recession

BY BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014 10:30AM

Happy now, Jan? It may not be the generally-accepted definition of recession -- two consecutive quarters of contraction in output growth - but it'll do as long as we get the "R" word tag in the economy we desperately have been pining for ... for so long.

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