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Treasurer Jim Chalmers at a press conference on the MYEFO data this week in Canberra.

Public patience wearing thin on Labor’s economic vision

The question is whether the treasurer’s talk of a soft landing will convince voters that the government is doing enough to alleviate the hardship they are experiencing.

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The pros and cons of a ‘good bloke’ prime minister

I find it alarming that the astute Niki Savva sees Peter Dutton as electable despite his failure to produce a single, costed economic policy. Albanese, for all his faults, does stand for something other than himself.

The Reserve Bank has looked at its key Covid-era policies to determine what worked and what didn’t. Australian governments have yet to do so.

The half trillion-dollar stimulus we didn’t know about

The Reserve Bank and governments pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy to deal with Covid. We are still counting the cost.

  • Shane Wright
The Reserve Bank should be open to criticism.

Chalmers has every right to comment on what the Reserve Bank is doing to the economy

The RBA has a job to do, but let’s never forget it’s a bunch of unelected people wielding what amount to extraordinary powers. It’s not infallible, and it should not be verboten for an elected parliamentarian to note the effects of the RBA’s choices.

  • Shaun Carney
RBA governor Michele Bullock said regional labour markets had been tighter than those in capital cities recently.

Maybe only a recession will fix macroeconomic management

The reliance on interest rates to reduce demand is hugely unfair – and it is lacking in effectiveness.

  • Ross Gittins
Future Generation chair Philip Lowe.

Former RBA boss warns Australian living standards in firing line

Philip Lowe says the current tax system is hurting Australia’s productivity, with the GST rate too low and income tax too high.

  • Millie Muroi
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Former RBA Governor Philip Lowe will replace Mike Baird as chairman of the philanthropic Future Generation fund.

Philip Lowe backs RBA’s caution on rate cuts

The former Reserve Bank governor has joined the chorus of voices warning that interest rates may have to stay higher for longer.

  • Colin Kruger
A more open RBA - the biggest changes to the Reserve Bank in generations get underway from Monday.

Reserve Bank revolution begins – but inflation remains its key issue

The Reserve Bank has, like clock-work, met on the first Tuesday of the month to set interest rates. That is about to end as it embarks on major reform.

  • Shane Wright
RBA governor Michele Bullock raises rates.

New governor, same mission: RBA sticks with unpopular rate rises

Michele Bullock had been in a honeymoon period with Australia’s mortgage borrowers since she took the RBA’s governor role in mid-September. That’s over now.

  • Elizabeth Knight
About one million Australians are paying a more expensive variable interest rate on their mortgages.

Australia passes the halfway point of the mortgage cliff. But the pain’s not over

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the passing of the midway mark of the transition, underway since last year, was welcome news, but acknowledged that families continued to face cost of living strain as inflation was still high.

  • Lisa Visentin

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