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Michele Bullock at her last press conference of 2025 explaining the direction of interest rate movements.

Five years of slow decay: Bullock’s grim warning for future

Two years into her job as Reserve Bank governor, Michele Bullock is worried that the next five years will be a slow-moving disaster for the world.

  • Shane Wright

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Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock during a press conference at the Reserve Bank, after interest rates were left on hold. Tuesdsay 9th December 2025 AFR photo Louie Douvis

Interest rates are blunt. But so is the RBA – when it needs to be

Why was RBA boss Michele Bullock so explicit this week? Here’s why it might be intentional.

  • Millie Muroi
The high fee schools are already confronting the big cost increases in 2026 from Government-led funding models and public sector wage increases for teachers.

Private school fees and luxury cars driving surge in bankruptcies

Private schools chasing fees have driven 128 bankruptcy actions since 2021, of which 45 were last financial year.

  • Shane Wright
A sharp fall in full-time employment has given the Reserve Bank some pause for thought over interest rate movements.

Nation sheds 56,500 full-time jobs in a month, giving RBA a headache

Just two days it appeared clear the Reserve Bank would lift interest rates next year. But new job figures suggest the economy may struggle.

  • Shane Wright
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‘It’s really tariffs’: Cutting through the fog, Fed lowers rates again

The US central bank cut interest rates for the third time, but with the spectre of a new Trump-appointed chair looming, dissent among its members is intensifying.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Jerome Powell will speak at 6.30am AEDT.

Federal Reserve cuts rates again but internal divide widens

The central bank reduced its key interest rate for the third time in a row but signalled that it may leave rates unchanged in the coming months, a move that could attract ire from President Donald Trump.

  • Christopher Rugaber
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RBA governor Michele Bullock and the rest of the bank’s monetary policy committee has the financial future of many Australians in their hands.

The single number that will determine interest rates in 2026

The Reserve Bank could be lifting interest rates as early as February next year. A single number will determine the RBA’s next move, and we know the day it’s coming.

  • Shane Wright
RBA governor Michele Bullock and the rest of the bank’s monetary policy committee has the financial future of many Australians in their hands.

The only way is up: The RBA’s interest rate reprieve is over

As interest rate cycles go, this will go down as a disappointing one for borrowers.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock.

Rates on hold as RBA grows wary about inflation pressures

The Reserve Bank has finished the year with official interest rates at 3.6 per cent. But the next move may be up.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Governor Michele Bullock is expected by all of the nation’s biggest banks to announce an interest rate cut next week.

The winners and losers of an RBA rate hike

The prospect of the Reserve Bank raising official interest rates next year is money in the bank for these businesses.

  • Clancy Yeates and Millie Muroi

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