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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
The Director General of the 140 member World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, has moved the deadline for several key countries to accede to opening up their agricultural markets more to March of next year following frictions at the Cairns round of 18 ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... reduction from last year, New South Wales 24 per cent and Western Australia is expecting a 41 per cent reduction. Treasurer Peter Costello has continued to support the reforms to the IMF membership which in the last few days has increased the voting ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
Following on from his comments that the Australian Government would look towards backing local candidates ahead of importing skills, Prime Minister John Howard said the skills shortage had arisen as a result of good management by the government, while ...

Daily Economic Round Up: All about Housing

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics data just released showed that housing starts were down 2.3 per cent over the last quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis and this represented a 5.5 per cent fall over the last year. On this national basis new private ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rose 12.5 per cent to a score of 101.2 following a 16.2 per cent fall after the last interest rate rise. The improvement in the index is being seen a s a consequence of the improvement in petrol ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
The monthly survey of business confidence by NAB fell four points in August to a score of six having apparently peaked in March of this year at 14. The three components of the index were down with the sales index falling one point, the profitability ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Data released yesterday on lending finance up until July showed that housing finance increased 1.3 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms from the level in June. The value of dwelling purchases for rent or re-sale fell by 10.5 per cent on a seasonally ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
Further analysis of the national accounts data released late last week shows that the textile, clothing and footwear industry expanded by 10 per cent year on year, growing 9.2 per cent during the June quarter compared to an overall seasonally adjusted ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
The number of jobs created last month rose by 23,400 in seasonally adjusted terms to take the national number of people employed to 10.2655 million. Better news was that most of the employment gain was in full-time jobs which increased by 22,600 to ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
The national accounts released yesterday show that Australia's GDP grew at only 0.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The increase in GDP was a consequence of an increase of 0.5 per cent in final consumption expenditure, 0.3 per cent in private ...