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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... 4.8 per cent, NSW 5.2 per cent and WA is the lowest on 3 per cent. The Chairman of the Australian Fair Pay Commission Professor Ian Harper, who is responsible for the minimum wage setting for 1.2 million low-paid workers, has said that the next ruling ...

PE stirs academic heat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... in Australia. Speaking at the Barbarians at the Gate breakfast seminar at the Australian National University today, Professor Justine O'Brien from the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, said, "The political calendar in the UK, US and ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... evidence that such wage pressure may add to the concerns of the RBA and assist a rate rise later in the year. A report by Professor David Peetz of Griffith University in Queensland has concluded that the new national IR laws have had no discernible economic ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... quoted as saying that "at least 50 per cent of sellers are distressed". This follows the research and comments made by Professor Bill Mitchell of the University of Newcastle who said last week that despite the nationwide resources boom, the interest ...

Daily Economic Update

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2007
... activity in the mergers and acquisitions area is likely to keep a baseline level of support under the market. A study by Professor Bob Birrell of Monash University's Centre for Population and Urban Research has found that 34 per cent of about 12,000 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... January after as score of 91.7 in December further suggesting that optimism about the economy was growing. A study by Professor Bill Mitchell of Newcastle University concludes that while the western suburbs of Sydney have been apparently enjoying good ...

New planners lack listening skills

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... and the degree to which recently qualified planners possessed such skills. The research was undertaken by Associate Professor Beverley Jackling and Colin Sullivan, who highlighted the variety of education pathways planners have been able to take to become ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
A report by Monash University Professor Bob Birrell draws negative conclusions about the reliance by the government on the use of migrant accountants. The report, The Changing Face of the Accounting Profession in Australia, found competency levels of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... spends its money in the light of interest rate increases and the backdrop of perceptions that he economy may have peaked. Professor Anne Harding of the Melbourne Institute of Social and Economic Research said yesterday at a Melbourne conference that ...

AFA conference raises $45,000 for MS research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... to be chosen to partner with MSRA, he said. The target for the year is to raise $100,000 to fund even more research. Professor Graeme Stewart AM, director of the Institute for Immunology and Allergy Research at Westmead Hospital, said, "MS is the most ...