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Australia's gross domestic product grew a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in the three months to Sept. 30, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday. That was just below the 0.6% growth in the economy that economists had been expecting, according to figures compiled by Dow Jones Newswires. On an annual basis, GDP grew 3.1%in line with economist forecast