The latest statistics confirm Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) level is on track to drop by about 20 per cent by the end of the financial year in response to government reforms to temporary and permanent migration and economic conditions, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, said today. Preliminary estimates released by [...]
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Net overseas migration on track to fall by 20 per cent
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 20 per cent, ABS report's, Australia, Australia's, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australians, benefit, confirm, develop, forward-planning, growing economy, immigration levels, infrastructure, long-stay migrants, long-term temporary migrants, migration, Minister for Immigration, net, net overseas, overseas, permanent migrants, permanently, policies, Prime Minister Gillard, reform, renewable resources, Senator Evans, statistics, Students, sustainable population, temporary residents, the government, track to fall on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nedlands, Cottesloe top $1m+ sales list
Posted in Local News, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged $1 million-plus, $1m-plus units, apartment buildings, Australia's, building, Cottesloe, crisis, domination, Earth Perth, eastern, eastern states., figures, financial, global, global financial crisis, house sales, last year, Melbourne suburbs, Nedlands, never-ending, non-Sydney, perth, Perth's, property, property analysts, realestate, released, RP Data, sales, state's, suburb, top 20 areas, top the state, western suburbs on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two of Perth’s western suburbs are all that stood between a total eastern states domination of Australia’s premium property markets last year. Figures released by property analysts RP Data show Nedlands and Cottesloe as the only two non-Sydney or Melbourne suburbs to make the top 20 areas for $1 million-plus house sales last year. The [...]
Migrant cuts would ‘hurt WA’
Posted in Immigration News, Jobs and careers, Local News, tagged Australia, Australia's, business, Chamber of Commerce, chief economist, cutting immigration, Federal Opposition, forecasts, higher, Industry, interest rates, John Nicolaou, labour, major, number of immigrants, overseas, population, priced out, promise, pushed, resource companies, resources boom, Scott Morrison, Shadow immigration minister, Simon Crean, slash, Students, temporary workers, Trade Minister, WA, warned, WEST Australians on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Business has warned that West Australians could be priced out of the resources boom and interest rates pushed even higher if the Federal Opposition follows through with a promise to slash the number of immigrants. WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief economist John Nicolaou said the flagged cut would mean the abandonment of major [...]
RBA lifts rates again
Posted in ALL news, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged (RBA), 25 basis points, 3.75 per cent, again.'', ANZ's, Australia, Australia's, bank, billion-dollar, borrowers, business conditions, cash rate, central bank lifted, chief economist, China, confidence, continue, deputy governor, diminished., dollar, economic data, economics, economists' reaction, economy, erratic statements, expansion, Glenn Stevens, global financial crisis, global recession, Government's, gradual recovery, head of Australian, India, infrastructure, interest rates, interest rates rises, JP Morgan's, key, labour market, Leader, lifts rates, major banks, mixed readings, opposition, prospects, public, raising, rates verdict, RBA Governor, RBA's, Ric Battelino, slowed, spending., Stephen Walters, stimulus, the Reserve Bank, today, Tony Abbott, Treasurer, Warren Hogan, Wayne Swan on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s more pain on the way for Australia’s borrowers with the Reserve Bank today raising interest rates for the third time in as many months. As widely tipped, the central bank lifted its key cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 per cent following its monthly board meeting. It’s the first time the RBA [...]
GOLD-COPPER MINING: Boddington is in business
Posted in ALL news, tagged 130 km, 16.6 million, 20.1 million, 2007, 2008., 24 years., Australia's, belonging, Boddington, Boddington mine, concentrate, copper, excess, expected, exploration potential, first, gold, gold mine., increasing, initial, large, largest, mine life, Newmont, Newmont Mining of Denver, open, Oz, pit, poured, production, reserves, Saddleback Greenstone Belt, shipment, significant, southeast of Perth, The Boddington mine, western australia on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WESTERN AUSTRALIA — The first gold has been poured and the initial copper concentrate shipment made at the Boddington mine belonging to Newmont Mining of Denver. At full production, this will be Australia’s largest gold mine. The Boddington mine is a large open pit 130 km southeast of Perth within the Saddleback Greenstone Belt. Newmont [...]
Immigration plan brings Australia’s needs to the fore
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 50 year migration plan, 50-year vision, Andrew Metcalfe, approach, asylum, asylum seekers, Australia's, Australian, … A long-term, brings, Canberra, Christmas Island, climate change, conducting, conference, consider, contribute, demographic, department, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Economic, environmental goals., fore, framework, global, global environment, globe, high level of education, immigration, Immigration plan, intakes, island, kevin rudd, language proficiency, long-term, long-term economic, long-term issues, mainland, migration, Migration Occupations in Demand List, MODL, nation's, national security, new policy, New Zealand School of Government, objectives, officials, other skills, plan, planning, policy, range, rounded, rudd, seekers, skilled migrants, skilled migration program., to Australia's, visionary, water, water needs, well-planned on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IMMIGRATION officials are preparing a 50-year migration plan to ensure that intakes consider a range of long-term issues such as climate change, water needs and national security. The Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Andrew Metcalfe, said yesterday the department was conducting a review of the nation’s migration needs to ensure a more [...]
Relief for renters as rates fall
Posted in Local News, tagged $100., 0.6 per cent., 3.5 per cent, across, agency, Australia's, been, Canberra, capital cities, Darwin, decrease, dipped, drop, dropped, eroding.'', expect, few years., first signs, hip pocket., hit, house rents, June quarter, leading, market, median rents, national weekly, nationally, off the boil, peak, per week, property, property values, rates fall, Relief, rental, rental rates, Rental vacancies, renters, rents, rising, RP Data, seeing, sight, skyrocketing, statistics, suggesting, Sydney, unit rents, weekly, where rents, yields on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RELIEF may be in sight for renters who have been hit in the hip pocket by skyrocketing rents over the past few years. There has been a small decrease in rental rates across Australia’s capital cities over the June quarter, suggesting rental yields may have hit their peak, leading property statistics agency RP Data says. [...]
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