New England Business News - February 2013 1

A brief round-up this evening of some of the economic and business news affecting New England.

One of the problems of not having our own state is that the statistical data required for proper analysis is either not available or available only at considerable effort. Over on the Conversation, they have been running a series on the future of Tasmania. New England is a damn sight bigger, but we lack visibility as well as statistics.

Back in November 2012, I made brief reference to the financial troubles faced by Nathan Tinkler. Somehow and somewhat to my surprise, he has continued to survive, buying time here and there. Now (here and here), he has settled a few more matters, including the debt to the Australian Tax Office on the Newcastle Knights Rugby League team; a tax debt on the Newcastle Jets is still subject to action.

The Knights have just begun a visit to Tamworth: The Northern Daily Leader reported yesterday: " The start of four days of “footy fever” rolled into Tamworth late yesterday when the blue and red cavalry arrived ahead of their pre-season National Rugby League match between the Newcastle Knights and the Cronulla Sharks". No doubt the Jets are hoping for a similar tax reprieve, as will be the Northern NSW State Football Federation.

Mr Tinkler's financial survival depends heavily upon Whitehaven Coal. His shares in that company were worth  $1.1 billion last April, dropped to $539 million in November (ouch!) and are now worth $630 million. Even with moderate gearing, and Mr Tinkler's gearing was more than moderate, that size decline in market values will create real pain.

Still Mr Tinkler did have some apparent good news during the week, with Federal Environment Minister Tony Bourke giving environmental approval Mr Burke has given the green light to Whitehaven's Maules Creek mine and the nearby Boggabri extension in the Leard Forest (both on the Liverpool Plains), as well as the AGL Gloucester coal seam gas development. I say apparent, because if Mr Bourke is to be believed the conditions imposed are so onerous that none may proceed. Whitehaven's press release on the matter can be found here.

I have written before about the environmental wars that have been raging across New England. The politics of all this are remarkably complex, too complex for a short economic round-up since it plays out at local, state and national levels. For the moment, I just note that the continuing disputes mean some suppression of mining investment below the levels that might otherwise have occurred.

On another matter, in a Financial Review story, Fonterra Board member Ralph Norris has bluntly told dairy farmers concerned about the impact on their viability of the supermarket milk wars to get over it. I can't give you the link because its behind the pay wall.

New Zealand based Fonterra is the world's largest exporter of dairy products. You have too much tied up in domestic white milk sales, dairy farmers were told. In response, Australian Diary Farmer's president Noel Campbell commented that dairy farmers in Queensland, Western Australia and Northern NSW have higher costs of production which makes them less competitive exporters. They also lack processing infrastructure to convert drinking milk into milk powders. He might have added, too, they they have been less active in moving into the higher value end of the market.

The still independent Norco cooperative dominates the Northern New England industry from its headquarters in Lismore. In the South, the Huinter Valley's traditional Oak brand is now owned by Pamalat.  In writing, I have spotted a gap in my historical knowledge because I don't know the story of Dairy Farmer's acquisition of Oak and the subsequent on-sale.

In another economics story with political overtones, the Armidale Express reports that Armidale's largest industrial estate cannot access the new National Broadband Network without paying hefty connection fees. Armidale may be a test roll out site, but the estate falls outside the connection rules laid down by the Federal Government. New England Federal MP was not impressed. I quote:      

NBN advocate and Member for New England Tony Windsor said he had spoken to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and NBN Co about the issue.

“I reiterated to the minister that most industrial estates in regional communities would be found on the outskirts of town and that they should be recognised as economic drivers for the community, thereby supporting the case to include them in the fibre  out footprint,” he said.

The problem in this case appears to be that the those involved will actually be disadvantaged by the changes, expected to rely on inadequate wireless connections in place of their existing connections. If my interpretation is correct, that would appear to be very silly.

Finally, Irish billionaire Dennis O'Brien's coup against the exiting Board and management of APN News & Media has been successful. I wonder what that means for APN's papers.

As I said. A brief report. 

Postscript

Before leaving this post behind, I wanted to make a brief response to some comments from Scott. In doing so, my intent is to spell out questions in my own mind, to clarify my own thinking.

The genesis of the discussion lay in my brief comment above on the NBN roll-out. This drew from this story in the Armidale Express. The crux of the story is that businesses in the Acacia Park industrial estate have been told that they cannot have NBN connection unless they pay a $225,000 connection fee. Acacia Park businesses claim to contribute 12% of the local economy. Two of the twenty or so businesses are locally headquartered if small international operations.

Now this story pulled me up. I had thought that one key argument for the NBN lay in the way it opened new economic development opportunities for county businesses. Now I find that those businesses have to pay for connection; the Federally mandated roll-out guidelines centre on residential customers. Let me be blunt here. In local terms, the primary effect of improved communications has been the delivery of an increased proportion of local markets to external suppliers. One part of this has been the closure of local service facilities. If country areas are to benefit in a longer term sense, that benefit will come if and only if local businesses can use the communications technology to grow their own activities. That is why the story surprised me, for it said that another cost impediment had been created for country businesses.

I was surprised for another reason too. I would have thought in business terms, it made sense to connect potential higher traffic areas to the NBN because that improved base load operations.

The Acacia park businesses complained about another issue too, the way they might be forced to wireless technology. Here Scott wrote:

I don't believe wireless NBN connections will be inadequate. While maybe not as good as the fiber NBN, it will still be streets ahead of anything available now. The decisions as to what areas get fiber access is based on common sense economic calculations to deliver value for money both in the construction and the ongoing service.

Now this is what worried me as well. Leaving aside the economic rationality of current NBN guidelines, if the the practical effect is to force businesses onto a less efficient delivery system, those businesses will suffer.  There are two very different issues here: one is cost, the second reliability. An internet based business really relies on reliability.

Let me illustrate by example. Just at the moment, I'm working off site. Our business systems are based on a cloud environment. Over the last week, problems with service delivery have been acute. On one day, more than seventy per cent of staff lost the ability to work productively. Our IT people don't actually know what the problem is yet. They have been working with suppliers to find a longer term solution while working on a shorter term fix.

Now think of the Acacia Park businesses. To grow international operations, even to service local customers, they need reliability. If they move to a cloud environment, if they base their phone systems on the internet, if they want to offer national or global 24/7 service support, they must have a reliable system that has the delivery capacities they need. They also have to have a scalable service, one that can manage data spikes and high traffic volumes and that can grow with them.

Can wireless manage this? My impression is not, although I stand to be corrected. My own connection at the moment is ADSL plus wireless. Down times are frequent.

Now some would say that if country businesses want fibre they should pay for it. My problem is that this defeats a central purpose of the exercise.      

In my discussion, there are two very different issues. One is technical, factual: what are the performance capacities of different systems? The second is economic: what do those capacities and associated costs mean in terms of economic and business development? I don't know. Maybe you can help?

Postscript 2

IT News had a very interesting article, NBN Co fudges numbers to expand rollout, dealing with problems in the NBN roll-out, including what appears to be a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Around New England's Universities - February 2013

Just a round up this morning of recent news from New England's universities. On 16 January, the University of Newcastle released 8,096 Main Round Offers to prospective undergraduate students.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Andrew Parfitt, said to date the University had made a total of 8,410 offers to students to commence studies next month, an increase of 65 on 2012.

“There were more than 19,200 applications from students across Australia with at least one preference for an undergraduate degree at Newcastle, indicating a high degree of interest in our programs.

“Our first preferences are up by two per cent on last year and 79 per cent of the University’s 2013 offers were to students from the Hunter, Central Coast and Mid North Coast regions."

Professor Parfitt noted that the Joint Medical Program (Bachelor of Medicine) continued to attract most preferences with just over 3,000 people applied for 170 places (110 at Newcastle and 60 at the University of New England). The University of New England issued a parallel release, also focused on the competitive nature of the program.

The following day, the NSW Minister for the Central Coast, Chris Hartcher welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to bring a new University of Newcastle presence to the Gosford CBD. This formed part of the University's continued push into the NSW Central Coast.

A month later, Southern Cross University announced the opening of the second stage building on its Gold Coast campus. The competitive dynamics in all this are interesting. Newcastle is pushing into the Central Coast and also up the North Coast. SCU is pushing into the Gold Coast and down the North Coast. Meantime, the University of New England, blocked to some degree from its traditional feeder areas by the other two, has pushed well south past the traditional New England border into Parramatta. Apart from sponsoring the Parramatta Eels Rugby League team, in February last year UNE acquired the lease on two iconic buildings in Church Street to act as a base for its campus of the future.

Staying in Newcastle, the Medical School has continued its good work with the announcement of a potential break through that might lead to better treatments for asthma. In the meantime,  NU's Dr Marguerite Johnson, a lecturer in classics, titivated locals with a Valentine's Day presentation on love and lust in the ancient world.  The University of New England, too, has been maintaining an interest in the classics. On 7 March, Dr Beth Thompson will speak about a 4000 year-old cemetery cut into the eastern cliffs which border the Nile Valley c. 250 kms south of Cairo. The title of her lecture is ‘The Old Kingdom Tombs at Tehna in Upper Egypt.’ Dr Thompson has been studying Egyptology for 30 years at Macquarie University, and combines this with longstanding formal training in Art.

This will be the first lecture in this year's Aspects of Antiquity series; this series has now been running for twenty years. As a sometimes historian, its nice to see both Newcastle and UNE preserving the interest in the ancient world.

Staying with community outreach, Newcastle has launched the ‘Science in the Pub’ series, where the community can meet scientists and learn about new technologies and ground-breaking research. Sounds interesting.

All the universities have recently had Orientation Week activities. At Southern Cross, activities varied across the three campuses, Coffs Harbour, Lismore and Tweed.

Have you watched the BBC History Cold Case series? SBS has been running it. One of the key members of the Cold Case team, Dr Xanthe Mallett, has joined the staff at UNE. A biological anthropologist, Dr Mallett is lecturing in UNE's criminology degree program.

I have run out of time today and have barely scratched the surface of recent news. This includes the resignation of Richard Torbay as UNE's chancellor. I will try to do better in bringing you updates from our universities in future!.   

Update on the Warrumbungle fires

In Warrumbungle Pilliga Fires, I provided a link to Amanda Bauer's story of the Pilliga fires. She has been adding to the series, so I thought that I would provide you with a full list. In order, they are:

• siding spring observatory fires
• siding spring obs. fires: day after
• siding spring obs fires: day three
• siding spring obs fire: day 4
• siding spring obs fires: the PM visits
• siding spring obs fires: one week later

In her last post, Amanda provided a link to Robert H. McNaught's The Saga of an Astronomer's Hat, a personal story of a hat and the fires. The photo shows Tanya Smith, Rob McNaught, and Shanna Smith standing by their destroyed house. 

In my last post, I included a dramatic photo of the coming fire storm looming over a house. That house actually survived the fire. Many others were not so fortunate.

Kwong Singh and the story of New England's Chinese community

My old friend Mark posted this story, Kwong Sing - Glen Innes. This is a modern photo from that  post of the Kwong Singh building in Glen Innes. Note the amalgam of styles.  Mark's post reminded me that it was time for me to pull together the stories I have written on New England's Chinese community. But that will have to wait for a little.

Warrumbungle Pilliga Fires

The first post for the new year. As I write, a huge bushfire that began in the Warrumbungle National Park has been burning its way north. This is one shot from ABC News coverage of the fire. As you can see from the photo, this is a very hot fire. There have been some amazing scenes recorded of fire storms.  This next shot, again from the same ABC News Story shows the fire moving through the thick scrub.

Back in 2006 in Pilliga Fires, I talked about the changing pattern of fires in the area. As it happens, I was re-reading Eric Roll's A million Wild Acres just before Christmas.

Now have a look at that road. In a hot fire of this type there is no where for animals to go. Kangaroos gathered on roads and tracks to escape the fire and were literally baked to death.

Once the fires are over, I will revisit that earlier discussion. 

Postscript:

Gordon Smith sent me links to two very interesting blog posts providing insights to the impact of the fires on the observatory at Siding Springs. They are:

• siding spring observatory fires
• siding spring obs. fires: day after

Meantime, regular commenter kvd sent me a link to this photo by Narrabri resident Mark Barrow reproduced in the Sydney Morning Herald. As kvd said: Can't get this picture out of my head. The small object in the foreground is a house. That would fit my definition of catastrophic. The SMH story is worth reading.

History Revisited - just a bit of bull

One of the little known facts about Armidale is its role as national headquarters of a remarkable number of beef breed societies. I haven’t counted them all, but there are over twenty. I didn’t know that there were that many beef breeds!

This fact got me wondering about the history of cattle in Australia.

I found that the first cattle to arrive in Australia came on the first fleet, picked up at the Cape of Good Hope on the way through. There was old Gorgon the bull, four or five cows and a calf. They were almost certainly of Africander breed, with probably at least one balck Vaderlander.

They quickly strayed after a convict who was meant to be watching them fell asleep. Livestock were valuable. Five hundred men were mobilized to search for the cattle, but to no avail. There were no more known cattle in the colony until another ship arrived three years later, again from the Cape, with eleven black Vaderlanders aboard.

In 1795, a convict was told by an Aborigine about a herd of cattle to the west of Sydney. He went to investigate, and found the escaped herd near modern Camden. It had grown to sixty one, a remarkable rate of increase for such a small herd in just seven years.

In the still small settlement, these cattle were a valuable resource. Governor Hunter rode to see them. He named the area Cowpastures, made it a reserve for the wild cattle and ordered a guard house built to stop poachers. Numbers grew steadily.

Sydney was full of rogues intent on enriching themselves. Governor King laid personal claim to a large number of the wild herd on the basis that Governor Phillip had owned part of the original herd and had given them to him. The wild cattle were difficult to catch. King therefore promptly swapped the claimed cattle for 200 tame Zebu and black cattle from the Government herd!

In a colony of rogues, John Macarthur was the rogue of rogues. On his first exile in England, Macarthur went to see Minister Camden and persuaded the minister to give him a very large land grant around Mount Taurus.

This was blatant chicanery. Lord Camden had no idea that Mount Taurus was in the centre of the cattle reserve, that he was giving Macarthur not just a land grant, but control of the wild herd itself. Governors might object, but the grant stuck.

Macarthur himself was more interested in sheep than cattle. His efforts here laid the base for another great New England industry.

Some of the best cattle were domesticated, others were shot for meat. The herd vanished. However, its rugged genes became widely spread throughout the colony’s rapidly growing cattle numbers.

Note to readers: This post appeared as a column in the Armidale Express Extra on 19 December 2012. I am repeating the columns here with a lag because the Express columns are not on line outside subscription. You can see all the columns by clicking here for 2009, here for 2010, here for 2011, here for 2012.

This will be the last History Revisited column posted here. I am switching posting to my New England history blog since the columns are exclusively history. 

History Revisited - performing arts shows town's dramatic side

The first “big” play that I ever intended was an Armidale Theatre Club production in the old Parish Hall. I was very young and it was quite frightening!

Why? It was a murder mystery about a serial killer. He had a desk that included a secret drawer in which was to be found a noose. He used this to strangle women.

To get to the drawer, he had to carry out a special movement, a sort of a hand wriggle. Now there I was in the dark of the Parish Hall, watching an aunt standing with her back to the murderer while he got out the noose. See why it was frightening?

During the week, Judith Ross Smith sent me her book Never Whistle in the Dressing room: a history of the Armidale Playhouse 1953-2003 (Kardoorair Press 2005). From that book, I know that the play was probably The Ladykiller, one of the fist productions of the Armidale Theatre Club.

That actually makes me feel very old!

Armidale and the surrounding area has a quite remarkable theatre tradition. At the time my girls were born there, we had a choice of fifty different productions within one hour’s drive of our home. That’s astonishing.

Armidale shares part of its story with the broader New England, the way in which smaller communities created their own fun. But there were also special features in Armidale associated with its role as an education centre for the broader New England and well beyond.

Many of those features are entwined in my own mind, either directly or through my knowledge of our area’s shared history.

In December 1923, for example, the Sydney Morning Herald announced that The Armidale School Dramatic Society would present the Greek play, "Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus" in the original Greek; the Quarrel Scene from Corneille's "Le Cid;' and "Gaspard de Coligny," by W. Wentworth Shields (an old boy)at the King's Hall. You could buy tickets at Paling's.

To my knowledge, this is the first time that an Armidale theatre group presented a play by an Armidale author to a Sydney audience. That’s interesting, but it was the reference to the original Greek that caught my eye.

Digging into the story a little, I found that the senior boys in the TAS Greek class, TAS then taught ancient Greek as well as Latin, wanted to make TAS and Armidale the Australian centre for studies concerned with classical Greek!

There is something wonderfully eccentric about this notion, but then theatre in Armidale has always seemed a little larger than life.

Today Armidale has many production venues. The photo shows the inside of the Hoskins Centre. That wasn’t always the case.

Initially, plays were presented in one of Armidale’s little halls or in the Town Hall. The opening of the Teacher’s College added a new venue. Then in March 1969, the Armidale Theatre Club opened the Armidale Playhouse as Armidale’s first dedicated venue. But that’s a story for another column.

Note to readers: This post appeared as a column in the Armidale Express Extra on 12 December 2012. I am repeating the columns here with a lag because the Express columns are not on line outside subscription. You can see all the columns by clicking here for 2009, here for 2010, here for 2011, here for 2012.

History Revisited - Armidale's retail changes

One of the significant changes in the Armidale streetscape over the last sixty years has been the decline in the corner store. They are still there, but their numbers have diminished.

Even sixty years ago, many Armidale households did not have a car. Bus services did exist, but they were infrequent. Some products such as milk, bread or ice were delivered on regular rounds. By then, you could order groceries for home delivery by phone, although store staff still visited to take orders at the back door from regular customers. But for many, a walk to the nearest corner store was still the normal way to buy day to day items.

You can only carry so much in a string bag. For that reason, the stores were quite widely spread, with the greatest concentration in the old city south of the creek.

Then as today, kids had vivid memories of the nearest stores for there you bought lollies or snacks. .You may be surprised at just how often those memories feature at reunions, on Facebook pages or in email exchanges among the tens of thousands of people now living elsewhere whose memory of Armidale was formed in childhood and at school.

In our case, it was Mrs Beatty’s store, now Knights. Midway between our parents and grandparents houses, we visited often.

I remember being sent there with a note from my mother. In return, I received a brown paper package to bring home. It would be years before I worked out that the package contained a sanitary napkin!

The transformation that we would reshape Armidale shopping was already well underway.

While there is debate about the exact genesis of the concept, the idea of the supermarket first emerged in North America with the spread of the automobile.

The concept was a simple one. Instead of customers knowing what they wanted and then ordering from a shop assistant who packed items individually, replace this with a more open store where customers chose and then carried the item to the check-out. This allowed greater variety and was cheaper.

It took some time for the concept to reach Armidale.

In the period after the Second World War, three Armidale businesses (Hanna’s, Richardson’s and Burgess’s) progressively introduced the concept. As they did, the centre of retail gravity shifted.

Initially, the changes were locally driven. Then came the chains.

In Armidale, there were two of what were then called variety stores, Coles and Penneys. They were great for kids with limited budgets looking for cheap Christmas presents for family. They also had toys!

Coles transformed. Expanding rapidly, it bought Penneys among others.

In 1960, G J Coles opened its first Australian supermarket. I haven’t checked my facts here, but my recollection is that Coles first reached Armidale when they took over Richardson’s grocery business. A new era had begun.

Note to readers: This post appeared as a column in the Armidale Express Extra on 5 December 2012. I am repeating the columns here with a lag because the Express columns are not on line outside subscription. You can see all the columns by clicking here for 2009, here for 2010, here for 2011, here for 2012.

History Revisited - ship sales marked the end of an era

On 31 March 1954, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the North Coast Steam Navigation Company had called for tenders for the sale of its nine ships. This announcement marked the end of a now largely forgotten era.

The Company had begun in 1857 as the Grafton Steam Navigation Company primarily to get the produce of the coast and tablelands more effectively to Sydney. Over time, it grew into a significant coastal shipping operation. Now squeezed by rising costs, the company had decided to go into voluntary liquidation.

Before the construction of the Great Northern Railway, people living in Armidale and surrounding districts had a choice in bringing goods in or sending produce out. You could send them overland to the river port at Morpeth on the Hunter or, alternatively, down one of the precipitous tracks over the escarpment to one of the North Coast river ports.

The choice was made on grounds of cost and convenience. From Armidale north, the focus was west-east to the coast. At Tenterfield just prior to the construction of the railway, several hundred people were employed carting goods between the Tablelands and the Northern River ports.

Even after the construction of the railway, the coastal trade continued. As late as the 1930s, some North Coast students at the Armidale Teachers College found it easier to go to Sydney by rail and then complete the journey by steamer because of the bad condition of the roads to the coast. One student remembered being lowered in a wicker ware basket from the steamer onto the long wooden pier at Woolgoolga that used to stretch from the beach into the open sea.

The Northern seas could be treacherous. Wrecks were common.

The 2005 ton twin screw steamer Wollongbar was the pride of the North Coast fleet. It had accommodation for 235 first-class passengers, 40 second-class and extensive general cargo.

On 14 May 1921 the ship was alongside the jetty at Byron Bay when a storm broke out. Attempts to move the vessel into the Bay failed. It was driven ashore and wrecked. Its replacement, the Wollongbar II, was lost of Crescent Heads in 1943.

The Second World War came far closer to Armidale than many realise. Japanese submarines operated along the Northern coast, torpedoing ships and laying mines. The mini-sub attack in Sydney Harbour is well remembered because of the panic it caused. Fewer people remember the sea war of the New England coast.

During the War, both the Great Northern Railway and the New England highway were vital transport links. Troop trains and war supplies passed through the Armidale railway station on Brisbane bound trains.

The railway is gone now, of course. Armidale itself would have lost its rail connection without the work of our local activists.

The mournful sound of the whistle of the Brisbane Mail as it travelled through Armidale at 3am is a fading memory. The railway station at Wallangarra with its dual Queensland and NSW stations with their very different architectures stands as a mute memory of that past.

Note to readers: This post appeared as a column in the Armidale Express Extra on 28 November 2012. I am repeating the columns here with a lag because the Express columns are not on line outside subscription. You can see all the columns by clicking here for 2009, here for 2010, here for 2011, here for 2012.

History revisited - memories of past lives

In Armidale on my last trip, I watched my column being laid out. It took my mind back, a long way back!

I wonder how many University of New England students, or for that matter other Armidale residents, would remember Neucleus?

Not ring a bell?

Founded in 1947, Neucleus was the University of New England student newspaper. The Neuc in the name stood for the New England University College.

I joined the Neucleus team as a relatively young eighteen year old and, by happenstance, ended up as business manager. A somewhat grandiose title for someone whose primary role was to sell advertising!

I wasn’t very good at it, but actually it wasn’t hard. The Armidale businesses I called in to see already advertised, knew students, and had their material set up. Later, I became co-editor with Winton Bates, the only Neucleus editor whose thundering words feature in Mathew Jordon’s history of the University.

Apart from the excitement of producing a newspaper, Neucleus had one supreme advantage. It had its own dedicated building, the sub-lodge. Fancy having your site on campus to hold parties free of interference!

My attention attracted by the modern Express office, I went searching for material on the history of Neucleus. In doing so, I found a 1960 Australian Archives photo showing then editor Ross Pengelley and Malayan student Khoo Soo-Hay doing the layout of the next Neucleus edition in the printing room of the Armidale Express.

That interested me for several reasons.

One was the physical production process. I cannot remember all details as to how we produced the paper. I do remember that we had to type material out and then physically lay it out on the page. We would fiddle around to get the best fit and the past it to the page. What a change!

The other thing was Khoo Soo-Hay’s presence. In 1960 the White Australia Policy was still formally in place. Yet by then, UNE had a substantial overseas student body, relatively greater than today, who became involved in every aspect of University life. The Overseas Student’s Association was one of the largest student societies on campus, including a number of Australian students as associate members.

These students were brought to Armidale by the Colombo Plan. Born out of a meeting of Commonwealth foreign ministers held at Colombo in 1950, the Plan aimed to encouraging development in our region. Tens of thousands of Asian students were funded to study in this country, many in Armidale.

Their presence was very visible in the smaller city of that time. And how did Armidale respond? Very well measured by student memories. The two things most often mentioned are hospitality and the cold!

The links endure to this day. Now a noted poet, Khoo Soo-Hay returned to Armidale in 2006 for Wright College’s 50^th anniversary celebrations. Photographs show him exploring the campus he once knew so well.

Neucleus is long gone, the parties we held in the sub-lodge a distant memory. Yet there is certain symmetry in that the sub-lodge is now the office of the International Student’s Association.

Note to readers: This post appeared as a column in the Armidale Express Extra on 14 November 2012. I am repeating the columns here with a lag because the Express columns are not on line outside subscription. You can see all the columns by clicking here for 2009, here for 2010, here for 2011, here for 2012.