QLD:Facts about Queensland in 1981

AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-2012
QLD:Facts about Queensland in 1981

Eds: Embargoed to 0001 AEST, January 1, 2012



Facts about Queensland in 1981:



- Queensland's population had risen to 2,387,943 (an increase of 3.6 per cent from 1980)

- Australia's population was 15,054,117



- Queensland's economy grew by 14.8 per cent, bettered only by Western Australia and
the Northern Territory

- Australia's GDP growth was 3.4 per cent



- The standard variable interest rate rose three …