Other cable channels had somewhat lower increases.
Tenants who pay for their own heat are subject to lower increases.
In what she calls "a disturbing trend," the local consumer price index has suddenly started climbing faster than the national index, after two years of lower increases.
Turnbull lauded it as a "cheaper, greener, smarter scheme" and said it could deliver deeper cuts to greenhouse emissions but impose far lower increases in electricity prices.
The lower increases come after the health minister, Sussan Ley, stepped in and asked insurers in January to either lower their premium increases or justify them.
Late Thursday, as predicted, the governors issued a joint statement that took credit for the lower increases.
Priceline.com said last month that bookings growth would slow to a gain of 44percentto48percentcent in the second half of the year on lower increases for hotel rooms and rental cars.
In recent months, the union's top leaders have come under fire for accepting lower increases in wages and benefits in some hospital contracts in exchange for the hospital corporations' agreeing not to fight unionization drives at some of their hospitals.
Industry analysts had forecast that the broadcasters would obtain lower increases in cpms than they enjoyed last year because of ratings erosion and the bumpy economy.
The government's forecast, based on a consumer price index for food, estimated that prices would rise 4 to 5 percent for beef next year with slightly lower increases for pork, eggs and dairy products.
The harshest aspects for women include cuts to family payments that squeeze single parent families, lower increases to pensions, and freezing superannuation contributions as well as cutting the low-income super rebate.
