The median price for a Perth house will pass $600,000 within three years as the city’s property market reclaims its title as the strongest and fastest growing in the country, a new report predicts. The BIS Shrapnel residential property report forecasts house prices in Perth will climb an average 7 per cent a year for [...]
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Tenants warned to brace for increased rents
Posted in Living in Perth, Local News, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged perth, increase, WA, chief executive, rising, capital, Melbourne, Australia, property, house prices, investors, house, Resources, sector, growth, population, tenants, rent, leading, weekly, prices, warned, increased, housing shortages, state capitals, rental, strong, brace, researcher, median, Australian Property Monitors, increased rents, rental report, rising house prices, APM economist, Matthew Bell, Perth rentals, capital growth, Urban Development Institute of Australia, UDIA WA, Debra Goostrey, property researcher, Terry Ryder, rentals on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Perth tenants should brace themselves as rising house prices, improving economic conditions and more newcomers to the state combine to force up rents this year, a leading property researcher says. The latest rental report by Australian Property Monitors shows asking rents in Perth have increased in the first three months of the year. The median [...]
Qantas increases fares before Christmas
Posted in ALL news, tagged actions, Britain, business performance, capacity, cheap air fares, Christmas, competitor, demand, domestic airfares, economy tickets, Europe, Fares, Hong Kong., increase, increases, internationa, international fares, l fare, Premium economy, Qantas, Singapore on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
QANTAS will increase international airfares by up 5 per cent this week, offering further evidence that the recent run of exceptionally cheap air fares is ending. In its first international fare increase since June last year, Qantas will raise first-class and business-class fares by 3 per cent on Friday. The increases will affect popular routes [...]
Banks set own interest rate hikes
Posted in ALL news, tagged ' worst fears, (RBA), banks, Big Four banks, claim, forced, higher, higher costs, hikes, Homeowners, increase, increases, interest, interest rate, lift, lift interest rates, lift rates, markets, money, mortgage rates, official, official RBA cash rate, raising, rates, reserve bank, rises, wholesale on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Banks say they will be forced to lift rates Will be more than official RBA rises Facing higher costs of raising money BANKS have confirmed homeowners’ worst fears: they will increase mortgage rates by more than the official Reserve Bank rises in the coming months. The Big Four banks claim they will [...]
Increase in employer-sponsored skilled migrants
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 2008-09, 60 per cent, accountancy, achieved, approach, areas, Australia, Australia’s, category, changes, China, chris evans, compared, computing professionals, countries of citizenship, critical, Critical Skills List, critical skills shortages., CSL, cutback, economic conditions, economy, effectively, employer-sponsored, employers, engineering, ensuring, experiencing skills, financial-services, future, healthcare, helping, high demand, high value, impact, increase, independent skilled migration, India, industries, IT, migrant intake, migrants, migration program, needs, new report, occupations, overseas, overseas workers, places, prioritising, reduction, reflects, registered nurses, report, rudd, Rudd Government’s, sectors, Senator, shortages, shows, significant, skill stream, skilled, skilled labour force, skilled professionals, skills gaps, state/territory-sponsored skilled migration, Targeted, The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, to fill, to meet Australia’s needs, United Kingdom, visa grants, Workers on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A new report has found Australia’s migration program is more effectively meeting the needs of employers with a 60 per cent increase in the number of employer-sponsored skilled migrants to Australia in 2008-09 compared with the previous year. The Report on Migration Program 2008-09 shows that the Rudd Government’s targeted approach to overseas workers is [...]
‘Shame’ vests for WA offenders
Posted in Local News, Political News, tagged 10 and 240 hours, abused, administration, adopted, Adult criminals, adult offenders, appalled, Australia, Australian Lawyers Alliance, ‘Shame’ vests, “a joke”., “Repay WA”, back to court, bright yellow, Britain, Casuarina Prison, Christian Porter, claimed, cleaning, clothes for charity., community, community service, community work, confidence, Corrective Services, Corrective Services Minister, courts, designed, donated, forced, gardening., Government campaign, hauled, Heather Harker, high-visibility vests, humiliate offenders, increase, inmates, jurisdiction, justice, justice deputy commissioner, juvenile, Juveniles, Karl O’Callaghan, kitchen duties, maintenance, offenders, outdoor community work, perception, Police Commissioner, printed, providing, public, punishment, punishments, reassurance, recycling, repairs, sentenced, sentencing, sorting, State Government, statistics, suggested, taunted, the community, the public, today, Tom Percy, tougher, vests, vests emblazoned, WA, WA offenders, WA president, WA’s completion rate, wear, wear the vests, working outside, worstperforming on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Adult criminals sentenced to outdoor community work will from today wear bright yellow vests emblazoned with “Repay WA” as part of a Government campaign to increase public confidence in community service as a punishment. Corrective Services Minister Christian Porter claimed community work had not been used as a sentencing option as often as it [...]
Increases to Fees and Charges for 1 July 2009 for visa applications
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 1 July, 1 July 2009, 2009., accordance, Australian, Australian government, changes, charges, Composite Index., Consumer Price Index, Contributory, decisions, fees, Fees and Charges, government, immigration, Immigration News, increase, increases, instalment, Parent Visa, Parent visa category, recent, second, VAC, VACs, visa, visa application charge, Visa Application Charges, visa applications on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fees and charges are reviewed on 1 July each year. A number of Visa Application Charges (VACs) and other fees will increase on 1 July 2009 in accordance with recent decisions made by the Australian Government. A number of other VAC and fees will increase in accordance with changes in the Consumer Price Index, or [...]
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Retail hiring jumps on spending hopes
Posted in Jobs and careers, tagged ABS, according, anticipation, April, ARA, Australia, Australian, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Retailers Association., bigger retailers, boosting, cash, casual employment, commentary, confidence, consumer, consumer emerges, consumer spending, David Jones, debt, delivery, demand, employed, employment, Executive Director, fear-filled, Federal, female, fiscal, forecasting, fuelled, Government’s, grow, high levels, hiring, improvement, increase, jumps, Mother’s Day, negative, numbers, package, paying, period, preparation, proportion, rate, rebound, reported, reporting, retail, Retailers, Richard Evans, rising, sales, sector, sharp, shoppers, shopping, skilled, skilled staff, spend, spending., staff, staffing levels, stimulus, stimulus package, surveys, tendency, trend, underutilisation, unemployed, Workers, workforce, working on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Retailers are boosting staff numbers in anticipation of an improvement in consumer spending, according to the Australian Retailers Association. The industry group’s executive director, Richard Evans, said surveys of association members showed a 12 per cent jump in employment for small and medium-sized retailers this month, painting a much more positive picture than figures released [...]
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