Ross Garnaut’s “Reset” provides another valuable contribution to the debate on Australia’s post-COVID-19 future. But in reviewing the past, he mis-assesses macro-policy in explaining what he calls the “Dog Days” of 2013-2019. It was fiscal austerity, not monetary policy, that restrained growth in this period.
Professor Ross Garnaut has been critical of the RBA’s rate stance. Louie Douvis