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Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... people have come off the dole according to ABS data. About 40,000 jobs have been created in the name of the 457 temporary work visa and the rest are attributable to new graduates coming out of universities of migrants coming from overseas. China has ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... according to Thomson Finnancial. The Australian Federal government has announced a $23.5 million program to police the 457 visa scheme that has allowed temporary workers into the country for up to four years. About $17.6 million will be spent on training ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Insight into the CPI data of Wednesday this week arrived today with the publication by the ABS of producer price data. Final stage of production prices increased by 1 per cent over the quarter and 4 per cent compared to this time last year largely as ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
... slowest on a national basis. The Labor opposition continues to call for stricter guidelines in the administering of the 457 visa conditions for foreign workers saying that labor policy would force employers to not hire workers from overseas if they had ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... for medical practitioners and 960 for chefs in order to redress the so-called skills shortage in Australia. Under the 457 visa scheme such immigrants are allowed limited working conditions for up to four years. The Labor opposition said that in 2004-05 ...

Australian consumption spending now top 5 in the region

Visa Australia says Australian consumption expenditure will top $1.4 trillion this year, following last year's level of $1.3 trillion. If Australia reaches its $1.4 trillion in consumption expenditure, it will be in the top five spenders in the Asia ...

Access ruling opens credit cards up to non-bank companies

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2004
Non-bank companies could soon issue Visa, MasterCard and Bankcard credit cards, after a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision announced yesterday. However, the central bank said it also wants the interchange fees paid through Visa's debit card scheme ...

RBA satisfied few businesses elected to surcharge credit cards

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
... fee for using a credit card. The reforms removed the restrictions imposed by the international credit card schemes such as Visa and Mastercard on the freedom of merchants in Australia to charge according to the means of payment. "To date the incidence ...