Bernie Fraser
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Michele Bullock didn’t cut rates on Tuesday. Bernie Fraser is sure she should have
The Reserve Bank’s most iconic governor says businesses are going bust and the RBA is too focused on only one factor in its charter.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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No ‘super nerds’ to set rates: Revolt over Reserve Bank reforms
Former treasurer Peter Costello told a Senate inquiry that parliament would surrender its sovereignty if the treasurer lost the power to overrule the bank.
- by Shane Wright
Peter Dutton warns he would not support ‘tainted’ choice for next RBA governor
Former Treasury secretary turned RBA governor Bernie Fraser says it would be “nonsense” to exclude former senior public servants from the bank’s top job.
- by Rachel Clun
Three key contenders for the Reserve Bank’s top job
Speculation has been building about who might be the next governor, with the treasurer expected to make an announcement on Friday.
- by Millie Muroi and Rachel Clun
‘Sound judgment, integrity’: Pivotal RBA governor Bob Johnston dead at 98
Bob Johnston, RBA governor under Paul Keating and pivotal to some of the nation’s most important financial reforms, has died at the age of 98.
- by Shane Wright
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Tax cuts
Top economists urge government to rethink stage three tax cuts
An open letter to the prime minister signed by 100 economists and financial experts warns the $254 billion in tax cuts pose a risk to the budget and will push up inflation.
- by Shane Wright
Treasurer acknowledges internal debate on tax cuts Bernie Fraser calls ‘dodgy’
Jim Chalmers has refused to shut down debate on controversial tax cuts that former RBA governor Bernie Fraser labelled “unfair and unwarranted”.
- by Rachel Clun
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Interest rates
Don’t ‘pussyfoot around’: Fraser says RBA has to start lifting rates now
Former RBA governor Bernie Fraser says the central bank can’t wait until after the election and should start lifting interest rates at its meeting on Tuesday.
- by Shane Wright
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Tax reform
A budget reckoning: How the tax system is failing Australians
Top economists, former Treasury officials and ex-politicians are warning that Australia is fast approaching a fiscal nightmare.
- by Jennifer Duke and Shane Wright
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