Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Australian consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney today. The median estimate of 21 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a 0.6 percent increase. Prices gained 3.5 percent from a year earlier.

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