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Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... incentive for landlords to run at a loss, it might explain why rents haven't completely gone through the roof. Prime Minister John Howard remains upbeat and says Australia's unemployment levels can be kept "for years" at their current 30-year lows. That's ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... Ken Henry who says that his department has had little to do with the $10 billion water package announced by the Prime Minister a few months ago. Dr Henry also commented that his department was not listened to as well as he would like in the case of the ...

ALP's broadband funding comes under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... services, claiming the plan was "The most irresponsible economic announcement of the last 11 years." And Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile questioned the accounting for the funding of the plan, telling Charles Woolley that not only was the plan under ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
... geography, remoteness from markets and the pattern of demographic settlement. The Nationals have put pressure on Prime Minister John Howard's $10 billion water rescue plan saying that they wish to limit the buy-back of irrigation licences and limit environmental ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... takes the total to five rate rises since 2002, totalling 2 per cent, and the fourth since the last election when Prime Minister Howard promised to keep rates low. As a consequence the average household will be paying $35 a month from their disposable ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... missed savings opportunities and we are only now starting to catch up, claimed Paul Keating, former Australian Prime Minister. Keating, one of principal architects of the modern Australian superannuation system, speaking on the first day of the Association ...

Daily economic round-up

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... presently the third most on record, however a decline of 6 per cent is anticipated for the 2007-08 financial year. Prime Minister John Howard has announced a further $350 million for drought relief as a consequence of the worst drought in a 100 years ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
... The public sector has grown by 131,000 over the last decade having grown only 41,00 in the decade before that. Prime Minister Howard has announced that 10,000 workers aged over 30 would be able to access $150 per week for apprenticeship training and ...

China growth an uneven story: Keating

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating told SIBOS attendees yesterday that China is a "very mixed place in terms of prosperity and opportunity" and dispelled some easy truths about doing business in a region going through an unprecedented growth spurt. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... rates may in fact be eased. Yesterday saw the Japanese parliament officially appoint Shinzo Abe to the role of Prime Minister, a role that he is expected to administer with his more centralist growth oriented and internationally assertive perspective. ...