JUNE KEY FIGURES

	Mar Qtr 2010 to Jun Qtr 2010	Jun Qtr 2009 to Jun Qtr 2010
Weighted average of eight capital cities	% change	% change
Food	-0.3	1.4
Alcohol and tobacco	5.9	8.7
Clothing and footwear	0.0	-3.8
Housing	0.6	5.8
Household contents and services	0.9	0.2
Health	2.2	5.0
Transportation	0.7	3.2
Communication	-0.1	-0.2
Recreation	-1.8	-0.6
Education	0.0	5.7
Financial and insurance services	0.2	3.9
All groups	0.6	3.1
All groups excluding Housing and Financial and insurance services	0.6	2.1

All Groups, Quarterly change

Contribution to quarterly change - June Quarter 2010

JUNE KEY POINTS


THE ALL GROUPS CPI

• rose 0.6% in the June quarter 2010, compared with a rise of 0.9% in the March quarter 2010.
• rose 3.1% through the year to June quarter 2010, compared with a rise of 2.9% through the year to March quarter 2010.

OVERVIEW OF CPI MOVEMENTS

• The most significant price rises this quarter were for tobacco (+15.4%), hospital and medical services (+3.8%), automotive fuel (+2.1%), rents (+1.1%) and house purchase (+0.6%).
• The most significant offsetting price falls were in domestic holiday travel and accommodation (-6.0%), fruit (-4.8%), audio, visual and computing equipment (-6.3%), vegetables (-3.0%) and overseas holiday travel and accommodation (-1.9%).

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
September 2010	27 October 2010
December 2010	25 January 2011
March 2011	27 April 2011
June 2011	27 July 2011

CPI REVIEW UPDATE

The ABS is currently undertaking a major review of the CPI. Information paper: Issues to be considered during the 16th Series Australian Consumer Price Index Review, December 2009 (cat.no. 6468.0) is available at <https://www.abs.gov.au>.

Public forums were held in each capital city during February and March 2010. Submissions to the review closed on 12 March 2010 and are available at <https://www.abs.gov.au>. The outcomes from the review will be announced in December 2010. The 16th series CPI will be implemented in October 2011, in respect of the September quarter 2011.


ROUNDING

Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding.


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