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Matthew Cranston is The Australian’s Economics Correspondent based in Parliament House. He is an award winning journalist who previously covered the Trump and Biden administrations as White House Correspondent in Washington.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - April 2, 2025: Shadow Treasurer of Australia, Angus Taylor addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra for the Post Budget Reply Address. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Taylor’s $10 pledge on gas prices

Angus Taylor has claimed the Coalition’s east coast gas reservation policy will push prices below $10 per gigajoule for ‘everyone’ and that it would save, rather than spend, $45bn in taxpayer funds.

Matthew Cranston

‘mini DOGE’Politics

NCA 2025 Federal Election Liberal Bus 01/04/2025 Melbourne Australia Leader of the Australian Liberal party Peter Dutton visitÃ•s Marnog winery in Melbourne to discuss MelbourneÃ•s suburban rail link project on the campaign trail for the 2025 federal election.Picture: NewsWire/Thomas Lisson

Dutton’s ‘red tape cop’ to aid business

The Coalition will install a ‘call-in’ cop with legislative powers to approve multimillion-dollar investment projects, as Peter Dutton vows to drive a ‘pro-business’ culture through the public service.

Matthew Cranston and Simon Benson

rates on holdPolitics

18 February 2025; Interest rates cut in retro style, Jim Chalmers, Michele Bullock and Anthony Albanese. Sources: NewsWire Artwork by: Frank Ling. Ratio 4:3 For DIGITAL.

RBA ‘well placed’ to deal with Trump tariff fallout

Jim Chalmers on Tuesday immediately looked to the potential for a May rate cut, as he said the mooted post-election RBA shift would be a result of Labor’s strong economic management.

Matthew Cranston and Jack Quail

Interest ratesEconomics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 21, 2025: Reserve Bank of Australia Governor, Michele Bullock appears before the House Economics Committee at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Campaign, tariff threat keep RBA on the sidelines

The Reserve Bank is set to keep interest rates unchanged on Tuesday as it awaits the outcome of the May 3 election and the impact of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Jack Quail and Matthew Cranston

COMMENTARYCommentary

Michele Bullock and the RBA's monetary policy board are unlikely to move on interest rates on Tuesday.

RBA to sit on its hands rather than be caught in crossfire

The Reserve Bank’s newly formed monetary policy board is likely to make history this week by not giving a follow-up rate cut to its first in a new easing cycle.

Matthew Cranston

ELECTION 2025Nation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JULY 14, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and Treasurer, Jim Chalmers with Michele Bullock the Next Reserve Bank of Australia Governor at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Economists warn on high prices

Economists say Labor will have to win over ‘cranky’ Australians who are dealing with a cost-of-living crisis worse than either of the previous governments.

Matthew Cranston

Budget 2025Politics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - March 26, 2025: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers his post budget address at the National Press Club in the Great Hall at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Treasurer ‘blew his Lotto windfall’

Jim Chalmers has stridently rejected claims he squandered nearly $350bn of windfall revenue gains despite the budget forecasting a decade of deficits.

Greg Brown and Matthew Cranston

Economic outlookNation

President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump’s tariff war impact ‘modest’: Treasury

Donald Trump’s impending trade war will stall Australia’s economic growth, Jim Chalmers claims, despite forecasts barely having changed since a month after the US President was elected.

Matthew Cranston

BUDGET 2025Politics

Clockwise from top: Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday; with Anthony Albanese on budget eve last year; in 2023; and 2022.

ALP’S fiscal reckoning with debt to GDP on rise amid splurge

Jim Chalmers’ debt outlook has worsened amid a pre-election spending spree of more than $67bn in three months, as Anthony Albanese sprays pre-election funding in marginal seats across the country.

Geoff Chambers and Matthew Cranston

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