Nothing like stepping into a new job and making a lasting first impression. Particularly, when replacing a crusty guy who was part of the furniture for so long. Step forward NAB’s new chief economist, Sally Auld.

Auld took over the bank’s forecasting-in-chief role last month, replacing Alan Oster, who’d been in the chair for the past 32 years. Her first public decision was to forecast the Reserve Bank of Australia would make a super-size 50-basis-point cut at this month’s meeting.