This Research Note provides a profile of Australia in 1901, with emphasis on a range of demographic and economic statistics. Trends in Mortgages Research Note No. This Note provides an estimate of the present average value of home loan mortgages and indicates the strong growth in new mortgage values over the second half of the 1990s to the year 2000. It also examines the variation between States in mortgage values and the link between interest rate changes and home loan repayments. The Changing Nature of the Australian Public Service Research Note No.
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The rise in petrol prices has raised the issue of how fuels are taxed. The Library recently published a paper dealing with petrol and diesel excises, the most sizeable taxes. This Note complements this paper by dealing with the second largest impost, the petroleum resource rent tax. This Research Note reviews trends in how women have voted in recent federal elections, compared to men. In particular it looks how women in rural and regional Australia have expressed their voting preference since 1993.