GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT – AUSTRALIA

Grim GDP figures may mean further rate cuts

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Original article by Vesna Poljak
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 18 : 2-Jun-15

The general expectation of economists is that Australia recorded GDP growth of about 0.6 per cent in the March 2015 quarter. However, Citigroup has forecast real GDP growth of just 0.5 per cent, while Damien Boey of Credit Suisse says there is the potential for GDP on a nominal basis to contract in the first two quarters of calendar 2015. Boey says the GDP outlook may prompt the Reserve Bank to further reduce the cash rate in the near-term.

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Hockey warns living standards could fall

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Original article by Jacob Greber
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 6 : 4-Dec-14

Australia’s economic growth slowed to just 0.3 per cent in the September 2014 quarter, and by 2.7 per cent year-on-year. Economic growth contracted in all states except New South Wales. The national accounts also show that Australia has entered an "income recession", with real net disposable income contracting in the last two quarters. Treasurer Joe Hockey has urged opposition parties to support government policy in the Senate, warning that a decline in living standards is likely if reforms are not implemented

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National income pie shrinks

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Original article by Jacob Greber
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 8 : 4-Sep-14

New figures show that there was an 0.4 per cent decline in Australia’s real net national disposable income during the 2013-14 financial year. This followed a 1.6 per cent decline in 2012-13, and it is the first time since the early 1990s that national income has fallen in two successive years. Meanwhile, wages rose by 1.3 per cent in 2013-14, while there was 0.5 per cent growth in GDP during the June 2014 quarter

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