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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... amendment of the base for the 175 per cent incremental concession and that a narrower definition of R&D be developed. The report notes that of the $5.95 billion spent on R&D, Business contributed $1.11 billion, Higher education $2.23 billion, the Public ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
... the issue of Australia's capacity to improve and match the performance of the likes of the US has been released. The paper notes that while some European countries now have productivity levels greater than the US, this is due to the mix of industries ...

Just debit it: Centricom

... director of Unisys Australia-New Zealand, the technology company behind the product. The service is likely to hit the right notes with consumers who do not have a credit card or don't trust the internet with their details. For example, 47 per cent of ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... Victoria 32 per cent was a misinterpretation of the results from the report. Executive Director Ian Dennis says that the report notes that NSW contributed 35 per cent of the national total growth of ICT industry jobs although jobs grew at a lower rate ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... slowing unemployment was compounded by falling property prices and increasingly higher levels of debt. Professor Mitchell notes that while the national labour market was tight, the areas of Sydney typically reliant upon factory work were suffering from ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase by 48 per cent amongst our competitors. The OECD notes that our productivity could be about a percentage point higher if Australian workers had an average of one year more education. ...

Lehman Brothers acquires Grange Securities

... advisory, asset management and private investor services. Last year it was ranked as the top Australian issuer of credit linked notes by AsiaRisk magazine. Michelle Baltazar

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
... intend to reduce numbers. The net increase is the largest for the last couple of years. Hudson chief Anne Hatton otherwise notes that ageism could be the new sexism in Australia with a concentration of the workforce moving to lower age brackets despite ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... $11 billion whereas for the year to September this year their value has already eclipsed $21 billion. The Citigroup report notes that the most exposed Australia companies have a theoretical liability of 1 to 2 per cent of their market capitalization ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...