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COVID-19 and summer bushfires: The economic impact on your suburb and pathways to recovery
Posted May 04, 2020
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[1] There were four occasions when Australian GDP declined in two consecutive quarters June and September quarters 1961, December quarter 1971 and March quarter 1972, September and December quarters 1975 and September and December quarters 1977. These two consecutive quarters of decline in quarterly GDP were not enough to cause a fall in annual GDP and hence these events have not been in Figure 1.
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