Thursday, February 27, 2020

How to Avoid Removal Company Scams and Fraud



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Monday, February 10, 2020

Coronavirus threatens Australia’s record run of economic growth


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Australia’s three-decade unbroken run of economic growth is in large part due to its success in tapping the rise of its largest trading partner, China.

But as the deadly coronavirus outbreak shuts down a swath of the Chinese economy, just as Australia suffers its own crisis in the form of the devastating wildfires emergency, economists are warning that the 28-year stretch is under threat.

“There is a very real risk that gross domestic product will contract as a result of the combined drag from the bushfires and coronavirus,” said Sarah Hunter, economist at BIS Oxford Economics. “Whether we go from this to a recession critically depends on how the outbreak unfolds.”



SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 29: Tourists are seen at Mrs Macquarie's Chair on January 29, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has now killed 132 people - mostly in China - and as of Wednesday morning had 6,000 confirmed cases while thousands more people remain under observation. Five cases have been confirmed in Australia, four in New South Wales and one in Victoria. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Bushfires and coronavirus twin disasters hit Australia's tourism sector

Jason Cronshaw runs bus tours in the iconic New South Wales Blue Mountains and normally has six hop-on, hop-off buses on the road over December and January, but not this summer.

"During some of those days we only ran one bus and that was really just to try and ensure we were still out there servicing the people that were coming out, but we really were running on very few people," Mr Cronshaw said.

His family has run the Fantastic Aussie Tours business for more than four decades.

"In 45 years I have never seen any sort of downturn like this."

The images of the Australian bushfires that were beamed across the world elicited international sympathy and donations but deterred holidaymakers.

A red double-decker bus

Even before the Blue Mountains itself was directly threatened, the tourism downturn began.

"The first cancellation the Blue Mountains received was in September last year, when the fires started on the North Coast [of New South Wales] and that was international travellers who didn't come to Australia," Mr Cronshaw said.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/twin-disasters-coronavirus-bushfires-hit-tourism-sector/11949922

Empty seats on a bus

With Australia's Hillsides Stripped Bare By Fire, Scientists Rush To Predict Mudflows

First came the fires, denuding millions of acres of forest in eastern Australia. Now comes the rain, more than 12 inches in just 48 hours over this past weekend in some areas of New South Wales.

That sequence, severe bushfires followed by torrential rain, is bringing a third cataclysm — landslides and large-scale erosion.

Here's why. Without leafy trees to offer protection, the water falls directly on hard earth. It pools and rolls, gathering into a torrent. If the hill the rain falls on is just the wrong steepness, the soil just the wrong hardness, the downpour just a little too intense... whoosh.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/803669266/with-australia-s-hillsides-stripped-bare-by-fire-scientists-work-to-predict-mudf

Australia's first home buyer boom: Home loans hit decade-high as millennials enter market

First home buyers are making a comeback in the Australian market, with the highest level of newcomers purchasing property in more than 10 years.
New figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that owner-occupier first home buyers jumped 21.33 per cent year on year.
In seasonally-adjusted terms, during December a record of 9,606 loans were approved to first home buyers – marking the highest point since December 2019.

Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/national/australias-first-home-buyer-boom-as-young-people-race-into-the-market/61ec95a1-b6ed-4978-8e8d-58cb52096173