StephenWalters, chief economist at JP Morgan, said there was some "static" in the data with volatility in high density housing data in New South Wales helping to skew the result, but added it was still clear that a downtrend is underway in housing.
By contrast, "The Last of the Haussmans, " Stephen Beresford's new work at the National Theatre's Lyttelton, features Julie Walters as Judy Haussman, an elderly hippy windbag who makes the kind of ditsy, dirty speeches that would shock your socks off if spoken by your grandmother.