Interest rates rise to decade high as RBA delivers Christmas pain The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates for the eighth month in a row, lifting its target by 0.25 percentage points. The New Daily · Dec 6, 2022
Former treasurer Peter Costello criticises both Labor and Coalition over their economic management The former Liberal treasurer has some harsh words for governments past and present. ABC News · Dec 4, 2022
Inflation may now have peaked. The RBA must tread carefully The next worry for Philip Lowe is he’ll have to apologise for raising interest rates longer than needed The Guardian - AU · Nov 30, 2022
Michael Pascoe: The Pope’s a Catholic and forecasting is a mug’s game The RBA had done all that could be done with monetary policy to fight the possibility of recession/depression from a global pandemic The New Daily · Nov 29, 2022
Philip Lowe is the easy fall guy for our economic woes. But maybe we should have listened to him more closely Reserve Bank governor has been criticised for saying interest rates might not rise until 2024. But that message came with caveats some did not hear The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2022
Afternoon Update: Landmark gender equality bill; Nationals oppose Indigenous voice; and Bob Dylan’s ‘fake’ signature Labor passes its Respect@Work bill to address workplace culture and is set to pass the industrial relations bill after David Pocock gave his support The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2022
Rents, energy driving inflation: RBA chief apologises to mortgage-holders Amidst Australia's inflation crisis, the head of the RBA is urging action to boost power and housing supply. The New Daily · Nov 28, 2022
RBA Governor Philip Lowe apologises to Australians struggling with mortgages Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has apologised to Australians for giving them unclear guidance that led to hundreds of thousands taking out big mortgages in the expectation that interest rates would stay low until 2024. ABC News · Nov 28, 2022
RBA governor 'sorry if people listened' to interest rate advice "I'm certainly sorry if people listened to what we said and they acted on what we had said and now regret what they had done. So that's regrettable. I'm sorry that happened." Newcastle Herald · Nov 28, 2022
Rents, energy driving inflation: RBA chief The head of the Reserve Bank Philip Lowe has thrown his support behind measures to boost energy and housing supply to cool inflation. AAP · Nov 28, 2022
RBA governor 'sorry people listened' to interest rate advice Greens senator Nick McKim accused the governor of "inducing many Australians to take out mortgages in the belief that interest rates wouldn't rise until 2024". The Canberra Times · Nov 28, 2022
Conflict of interest: have low cash rates created the ‘everything bubble’? In new book The Price of Time, economist Edward Chancellor explores the role central banks have played in the snowballing challenges of the past quarter century The Guardian - AU · Nov 26, 2022
Afternoon Update: Labor stings RBA governor on wages remark; Friendlyjordies’ home ‘firebombed’; and the world’s oldest meal RBA governor Philip Lowe says it is ‘best [to] avoid’ pushing wages up even as workers suffer real wage cut due to inflation The Guardian - AU · Nov 23, 2022
Bridget Archer flags crossing the floor again on national integrity commission – as it happened This blog is now closed The Guardian - AU · Nov 22, 2022
The Guardian - AU · Nov 22, 2022 Morning Mail: Australia’s exciting start to World Cup, scientists’ climate warning, problems at The Project In today’s newsletter: the Socceroos score an early goal against France; Australia faces hotter, wetter climate; and Ten show exodus continues
The New Daily · Nov 22, 2022 Michael Pascoe: Interest rates won’t work like they used to The RBA board should be thinking very, very seriously about before lifting interest rates again, Michael Pascoe writes.
The Guardian - AU · Nov 22, 2022 Global shocks likely to drive more frequent interest rate changes, RBA says Central banks will need to adjust rates more often to respond to unpredictable levels of inflation, Philip Lowe says
ABC News · Nov 22, 2022 RBA governor Philip Lowe warns Australians to brace for higher inflation, lower growth The Reserve Bank governor warns the global economic conditions that helped central banks keep inflation low and stable are reversing, making for more economically volatile times, and potentially higher interest rates ahead.
AAP · Nov 22, 2022 RBA leaves 50bp rate hike on the table The Reserve Bank is prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure the spike in inflation is only temporary and doesn't linger.
AAP · Nov 19, 2022 Reserve Bank December rate rise on course The central bank governor will give a major speech this week and could signal a pause in interest rate hikes is no longer on the table for this year.
The Conversation · Nov 8, 2022 In defence of RBA Governor Philip Lowe: an easy scapegoat for record interest rate rises Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe is getting terrible press, most of it undeserved.
The New Daily · Nov 4, 2022 ‘Wouldn’t want to trade’: Why Australia’s inflation battle pales in comparison to global woes Times are tough in Australia right now, but Reserve Bank boss Philip Lowe doesn’t think you’d want to be anywhere else.
The New Daily · Nov 2, 2022 Alan Kohler: Economists disagree on where interest rates are heading – shock It’s hard to recall a time when the interest rate forecasts of economists were as widely, and wildly, different as they are now.
The Guardian - AU · Nov 1, 2022 Crowds gather for national Cassius Turvey vigils – as it happened This blog is now closed
The Guardian - AU · Nov 1, 2022 Morning Mail: RBA rate warning, thousands miss power bill rebates, four-day work week trial In today’s newsletter: more than a third of households could be losing out on crucial cost-of-living relief; Unilever staff to trial shorter week; and why the BMI index might be bad for you