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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
Evidence of the softening of consumer demand comes with the latest sales of new motor vehicles data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which shows that on a national seasonally adjusted basis sales grew by only 2.9 per cent. The most growth occurred ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
In a bid to ensure the supply of farm labour, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) has asked the Federal Government to reduce the withholding tax on foreign workers from 29 to 13 per cent saying that the $7 billion horticulture industry could lose ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2006
... industrialisation of many developing economies. The IMF has otherwise expressed its sentiment along with Australian Treasurer Peter Costello that low-income members countries should be allowed increased political voice in the name of better international ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2006
A buoyant economy has created strong demand for professionals particularly in the engineering field where new graduates are commanding starting salaries of $50-60,000. The median for Investment banking graduates according to the Australian Association ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
The returns to the house prices of the Australian capital cities has shown a weighted average return over the year to September of 9.5 per cent of which Western Australia property values increased a staggering 45.9 percent, Darwin a healthy 17.3 and ...

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PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
The pay packets of management are back in the spotlight with news that the average salary of chief executives in Australian chief executives has risen by about three hundred per cent over the last couple of decades and that within the top 50 companies ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
The changing structure of world trade is again in focus with the release of information on Australian exports showing that those going to Asia rose from 57 per cent to 62 per cent in the five years to 2005 at the same time that exports to the US fell ...

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PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... about April or May of this year whereas commercial finance has been on the improve since about that time. The Treasurer Mr Peter Costello has warned that the impact of the national drought and the peaking of commodity prices signals a slowing of domestic ...

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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
The Monash University Centre for Economics of Education and Training has produces a report funded by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum that has found that there are about 540,000 young Australians not in full-time work or learning. Of this number 330,000 ...

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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Yesterday's rise in interest rates 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 ...