'How far up we go on rates, I don't know'
RBA boss Philip Lowe reveals he hasn't spoken to the Treasurer about interest rates, and says he has an 'open mind' about how many more rate rises will be required.
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Free market path to lift Indigenous
Labor has handed its new tsar for Aboriginal business extraordinary powers that could make remote-community residents the owners of defence infrastructure and the funders of energy projects.
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Red alert for AUKUS submarine reactors
A Rolls-Royce program set to supply reactor cores for Australia’s nuclear submarines has been branded as ‘unachievable’ in a blow to the nation’s AUKUS ambitions.
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