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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
In a bid to ensure the supply of farm labour, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) has asked the Federal Government to reduce the withholding tax on foreign workers from 29 to 13 per cent saying that the $7 billion horticulture industry could lose ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... mortgage holders and the 650,00 who have done so in the last five years will be "taken to the brink". The National Farmers Federation has estimated that total debt has risen by about 10 per cent over the last year to $43 billion at a time when farmers ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... agreement with China with exports to China increasing three-fold in the last decade, according to the National Farmers Federation (NFF). The NFF acknowledged that there were sensitive issues like the vulnerability of the Australian horticulture sector ...

Cyclones and underinsurance strike in North Queensland

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2006
... Queensland produces up to 90 per cent of Australia's banana crop, worth around $350 million in annual production. Wesfarmers Federation Insurance used to be active in marketing crop insurance in the early 1990s in Queensland, though few farmers are likely ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2005
... spending. Investors bought shares of major retailers like Federated Department Stores, a day after the National Retail Federation released a higher forecast for this year's US holiday sales. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 44.66 points at 10,916.09. ...

Daily Economic Update

... per cent by the end of next year - they are currently trading around 4.43 per cent. Meanwhile, the US National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to grow by 6.0 per cent, up from the previous estimate of 5.0 per cent as gasoline prices have declined ...

RetireInvest uses Alliance Programme to build business

... arrangements with employers and professional associations, such as the Commercial Law Association and Victorian Farmers Federation, as well as local alliances with professional services firms. RetireInvest general manager George Haramis says "By establishing ...

Health Super board dissolved and restructured

... independent chair until his term expires on March 31, 2008. Union appointments were made by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF), the Health Services Union Victoria - No 1 and Health Professionals Branch (HSU). The Victorian Healthcare Association ...

Howard says no need for further rate hikes

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2003
... came ahead of an expected rise in the jobless rate when employment figures are released tomorrow. National Farmers' Federation spokesman Charles Burke said the rate move would add $631 a year to the average farm debt of $252,300. "These increases will ...

Wesfarmers acquires Lumley for $320 million

... of Lumley Australia and Lumley New Zeland and associated finance activities, plus Lumley Technology, join Wesfarmers Federation Insurance in the new Wesfarmers Insurance Division. Lumley Life will be part of that division until finalisation of its sa ...