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Australian National Accounts June 2025: Australia’s economy improves, but needs business investment boost
In brief: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.6 per cent in the June quarter and 1.8 per cent over the year. The Australian economy is in recovery with household and government consumption, as well as net trade, contributing to growth. Meanwhile, government investment fell. Business investment continues to lag, which remains a concern and could limit future growth. The National Accounts showed an economy in recovery, albeit an excruciatingly slow one.
Quarterly states and territories chart pack: Household spending slows nationally, with growth varying across jurisdictions
In brief: National household spending growth moderated in the June quarter due to higher interest rates and elevated costs, as well as ongoing economic uncertainty. The Northern Territory recorded the highest annual growth in household spending volumes, followed by Western Australia. The weakest growth was in New South Wales and Victoria. Most states and territories recorded strong growth in spending on vehicle purchases, particularly for electric and hybrid cars.
I Once Met... George Sanders - Nicholas Hordern
In 1961, Nicholas Hordern was new to Lausanne after opening a British advertising agency’s Swiss branch and knew no one - but had an introduction to George Sanders via a jazz-piano coach Chemin de Montolivet 27 overlooked Lake Geneva and the snow-clad Alps. I took the lift that the actor had built to the penthouse. George Sanders was at the grand piano in a ‘smoking’, playing Till There Was You. His wife, Benita, Ronald Colman’s widow, and her daughter, Juliet Colman, plied me with stiff whiskies.
I Once Met... George Sanders - Nicholas Hordern
Blog Magazine Podcasts Greatest Hits About Us Literary Lunches The Directory Courses & Tours Shop Features Regulars Books Arts Travel Nicholas Hordern was plied with stiff whiskies by George Sanders' wife, Benita, Ronald Colman’s widow, and her daughter, Juliet Colman In 1961, I was 27. Newly arrived in Lausanne, I had opened a British advertising agency’s Swiss branch. I knew no one, but had an introduction to George Sanders via a jazz-piano coach.
Power and the princelings in China' by Kerry Brown
China The New Emperors: Power and the princelings in china by Kerry Brown I.B. Tauris, $42.95 hb, 244 pp China For countries, and none so important to Australia, have a political system as opaque as that of China. This is deliberate; since the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has striven to make turnovers in its leadership as bland as possible. But the elevation of the country’s current ‘Fifth Generation’ Leadership was actually full of drama.
Nick Hordern reviews 'Fragile Empire: How Russia fell in and out of love with Vladimir Putin' by Ben Judah
On 18 July 2013the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was sentenced to a five-year jail term on corruption charges. Navalny, in a speech to the court castigating the dispensation which has emerged in Russia since Vladimir Putin first became president in 2000, attacked a ‘system of power in which 83 percent of the country’s wealth is in the hands of half of one percent of the population’.
A life of Creighton Burns' by John Tidey
Media Class Act: A Life of Creighton Burns by John Tidey Australian Scholarly Publishing, $34.95 pb, 194 pp, 9781921509496 Media Newspapers, they say, are in the throes of ‘far-reaching structural change’, a euphemism for ‘extinction’ that arouses complacency in the breasts of the e-literate; fury in those of the technophobes.
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