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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Market odds move firmly against Reserve Bank interest rate rise
Posted in ALL news, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged "normal" level., "V-shaped", (RBA), 4.75 per cent., accelerated, against, Australia, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian dollar, Australian Finance & Banking Conference, bank, bank's chairman, business, cash rate, central bank, coincided, crisis, current level, December 1, deposit, deputy governor, economic outlook, equivalent, exports, Financial market betting, firmly, Gail Kelly, housing, imports, interest rate rise, jump, lending, level, Market odds, meeting, monetary policy, move, overall stance", raise rates, rates, recovery, reporters, Reserve, reserve bank, revealed, Ric Battellino., rise, slump, speech, Sydney, Ted Evans, triggering, Westpac chief executive on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE market odds have moved firmly against an interest rate rise by the Reserve Bank in February. The sharp change in direction, which began on Tuesday after the central bank revealed its December 1 meeting minutes, accelerated yesterday following a speech by RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino. Mr Battellino signalled that rates could stay on [...]
Blitz on working holiday visa scam
Posted in ALL news, Immigration News, tagged 400., abused, advertisements, Applications, Australian Business, backpackers, cancelled, claim, convicted of fraud, department, Department of Immigration, documents, European visitors, extend, false documentation, falsely claim, farm, farms., Federal, fee, fraud, fraudulent claims, fruit growing, Gumtree website, holiday visa, hostel, immigration, Indians, industries, international students, internet, job, jobs, linked, lodged online, mainly, opposition, posted, reflected, rural, rural jobs, scams, selling, Sharman Stone, SPECIALIST integrity unit, spokeswoman, Sydney, targeting, this fraud, under-resourcing, visa, visas, widespread, worked, working holiday visa program, working holiday visas on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A SPECIALIST integrity unit has been formed inside the Department of Immigration to deal with widespread fraud in the working holiday visa program, on which industries such as fruit growing depend. More than 200 internet advertisements have been found offering to buy or sell documents allowing backpackers to claim they had worked in rural jobs [...]
George Michael coming to Perth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 100 million pop albums, 1988, 2 million fans, 25 Live arena tour, 80s, albums, American number one singles, artist, Australia, Australian, Australian trip, awards, Careless Whisper, concerts, confirmed, consummate performer, country, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Down Under, Faith, Faith tour, fans, February, February 20, February 26., Freedom, funky, George Michael, including, Member's Equity Stadium, Michael, million, One More Try, Paul Dainty, perform, performer, perth, pop, Promoter, rife, Rumours, singles, solo, solo pop vocalist, star, stunning show, Sydney, Sydney Football Stadium, thrilling, Too Funky star, Too Funky., trip, tunes, WA, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham!, won on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
George Michael will perform two Australian concerts in February, and the first will be in Perth. Rumours had been rife that the Too Funky star was headed down under, and today his Australian trip has been confirmed. Heading to Australia for the first time since 1988, the Wham! star and solo pop vocalist will perform [...]
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. [...]
Media Release: More Reform Required
Posted in Immigration News, tagged 60 rogue agents, affects, allegations, association, Australia, bad behaviour, brisbane, CEO, Changing Together, colleges, comprehensive, concerned, consumers, cracked down, department, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, education, education agents, education providers, education scams, Employment and Workplace Relations, entitled, ethics, falling prey, four corners, hearing reports, illegal, illegal behaviour, immigrants, impacts negatively, independent complaints body, independent report, Institute, international students, Maurene Horder, Melbourne, MIA, MIA reported, migration, migration advice, migration agents, Migration Institute of Australia, minority, new issue, operators, private educations, profession, professional, program on migration, prosecuted, protect, raised, range of reforms, recent, registered, registration, representing, review fees, scam, scams, strengthen standards, Students, Sydney, The Department of Education, tiered system, tolerated, tonight’s, unethical, unscrupulous, unscrupulous operators’, visa, visa applicants, visas on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The professional association representing migration agents, the Migration Institute of Australia, is concerned about allegations raised on tonight’s Four Corners program on migration and education scams. “Unfortunately, hearing reports about international students and visa applicants falling prey to unscrupulous operators is not a new issue”, says Maurene Horder, CEO of the Migration Institute of Australia. In [...]
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