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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
... in the total of cereals and their various by products. In the light of the drought effecting about 40 per cent of the nations arable land these results are not too bad and will have been made better as a result of favourable prices for most agricultural ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... will increase the demand for Australian iron ore which is already in great demand in China as well as other developing nations.China and India account for about 40 per cent of the world's iron ore consumption and this is expected to exceed fifty per ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... of the US and Europe to include the burgeoning economies of the new economic world that is evolving. The G20 group of nations meets in Melbourne this week representing about 85 per cent of global GDP, 80 per cent of world trade and two-thirds of global ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... spend hundreds of millions on water conservation projects in the face of the current drought that has about a half of the nations farmland drought declared. The Murray-Darling system now has the worst water flows in the 114 years that records have been ...

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ALFRED SINN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
... and the median prices were down from a year ago. The Fed is also continuing to monitor oil prices closely as the OPEC nations announced they will reduce their group production quota by 1.2 million barrels a day, which set oil prices $2 higher, finishing ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... seek more work. This comes after the released by the ABS that shows that casual workers now make up 2.3 million of the nations 10,295,000 worker's, this represents about 22 per cent of the workforce. Casual male workers have increased by 115 per cent ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... within a couple of decades, the pressure is on to set up contracts as soon as next month's energy meeting of the 25 plus EU nations.

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... cotton although those for sugar have been on the decline. The farming sector now accounts for about 20 per cent of the nations commodity exports which is significantly below the figure of 33 per cent in 1991 and in excess of 50 per cent during the 1950s. ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... billion project involving production of 60,000 barrels of synthetic diesel fuel daily which is about 10 per cent of the nations needs. Located in the La Trobe Valley which has an estimated 500 years of brown coal reserves, the flow on effects from the ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... industry protection is justified. Although China and India are not in the Cairns group, as members of the G33 developing nations collective they have called for 20 per cent of their agricultural goods to have special exemption status. The continuing ...