Fed: Wages continue to rise, increasing pressure on rates = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2000
Fed: Wages continue to rise, increasing pressure on rates = 2

Average male weekly earnings rose 1.6 per cent seasonally adjusted to $823.80, up $35.40
for the year and $13.10 in three months.

Female earnings rose only 0.9 per cent to $689.40 to be up $22.70 for the year and
$6.50 for the quarter.

The Reserve Bank will be concerned wages appear to be on the rise even before the GST begins.

However, the survey conflicts with recent wage bargaining outcomes.

Yesterday's HSBC survey found new wage bargaining agreements in the March quarter delivered
average annual wage increases of just 3.4 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in December.

By contrast, the ABS survey found average annual wage increases jumped from 3.0 to 4.0 per cent.

All eyes will now be on tomorrow's inflation figures, with another bad result there
likely to set the seal on a further rate rise.

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Vic: New power restrictions as temperature soars

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2000
Vic: New power restrictions as temperature soars

Victorians have been hit with more power restrictions today, less than a day after
the bans were lifted.

The state government snapped on the bans after receiving news last night that temperatures
would soar towards 40 degrees.

Premier STEVE BRACKS blames an unusual rise in today's predicted maximums across the
eastern seaboard for the new restrictions, which may continue tomorrow and possibly next
week.

The power restrictions apply from 1pm to 7pm today and again tomorrow, though they'll
be reviewed at 10am with a cool change forecast.

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KEYWORD: YALLOURN (MELBOURNE)

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Vic: Napthine labelled "anti Catholic" after query on ALP man

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-1999
Vic: Napthine labelled "anti Catholic" after query on ALP man

Victorian Opposition leader DENIS NAPTHINE has been accused of being anti-Catholic
and anti-Christian for querying the CV of Labor's candidate for the Burwood by-election.

Dr NAPTHINE earlier this week questioned why BOB STENSHOLT (pron: STENZ-holt) had removed
from his CV details of his seven years of training to be a priest.

Dr NAPTHINE's also asked whether Mr STENSHOLT is hiding anything else about his past.

Attorney-General ROB HULLS has attacked Dr NAPTHINE in parliament, saying Mr STENSHOLT
is being treated as though his time in the seminary was like dancing in the devil's playground.

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NSW: Arthur Boyd dies

AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-1999
NSW: Arthur Boyd dies

SYDNEY, April 25 AAP - Renowned Australian artist Arthur Boyd has died at the age of 78.

Boyd, a former Australian of the Year whose work is represented in the National Gallery in
Canberra and all state collections, died peacefully yesterday.

He passed away in Melbourne's Mercy Private Hospital surrounded by his family.

Arrangements were being made for a private family funeral, ABC radio quoted from a family
statement.

Opposition leader Kim Beazley tonight paid tribute to the artist.

"Australia has lost a great artist and a great philanthropist," Mr Beazley said in a
statement.

"His art will live on through his work and through the Bundanon Trust - a gift to the
nation."

After leaving school at 14, Boyd exhibited early landscape paintings in Melbourne before
serving in the army from 1941 to 1944.

He exhibited with the Contemporary Art Society, ran pottery with his brother-in-law John
Perceval and devoted himself to painting from 1949.

In February, Boyd was admitted to Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital after suffering a heart
attack.

The Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre was opened in February at Bundanon, a residence
the couple bequeathed to the nation in 1993.

The Bundanon property offers living and working accommodation for artists.

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KEYWORD: BOYD

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FED: Trainees and apprentices up 31 per cent in 1997/98

AAP General News (Australia)
01-17-1999
FED: Trainees and apprentices up 31 per cent in 1997/98

CANBERRA, Jan 17 AAP - New apprenticeships and traineeships had increased by nearly 31 per
cent in the 1998 financial year, Education and Training Minister David Kemp said today.

Dr Kemp said figures released today by the National Centre for Vocational Education
Research showed almost 123,000 apprenticeship and trainee commencements in 1998.

"This is an increase of almost 31 per cent on the previous year," Dr Kemp said in a
statement.

He said the number of apprenticeships and trainees had risen overall by over 11 per cent in …

FED:Govt bends on Nauru processing=3

AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-2011
FED:Govt bends on Nauru processing=3

Acting Prime Minister WAYNE SWAN, in consultation with Ms GILLARD and Cabinet, will
make a formal proposal to the coalition.

It hinges on the coalition agreeing to amend the Migration Act to allow the government
of the day to implement its policies following a High Court decision ruling it illegal
earlier this year.

Mr ABBOTT said earlier today the coalition remains opposed to processing in Malaysia
because it is not a signatory to the UN refugee convention.

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KEYWORD: BOAT BOWEN 3 CANBERRA (REOPENS)

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Fed: Qld poll won't impact Chinalco decision, says Swan

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2009
Fed: Qld poll won't impact Chinalco decision, says Swan

By Sandra O'Malley

CANBERRA, Feb 22 AAP - A possible Queensland election won't be a factor when the Rudd
government consider Chinalco's grab for a bigger stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto,
Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

There is growing expectation that Queenslanders will soon be heading to the polls for
an early election.

Mr Swan told Network Ten the timing of any election was up to Queensland Premier Anna
Bligh but it won't impact the government's decision on the Chinalco bid.

"The timing of an election in Queensland …