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June 2025 · The ConversationWould a corporate tax cut boost productivity in Australia? So far, the evidence is unclear
April 2025 · The ConversationVoters have a clear choice. Labor’s long term and equitable tax reform or the Coalition’s big but one-off tax cuts
June 2024 · The ConversationAustralia’s inflation rate jumps to 4%, putting an RBA rate rise back on the agenda
April 2024 · The ConversationAs the COVID cash glut comes to an end, the Reserve Bank is changing the way it sets and maintains interest rates
November 2023 · The ConversationMeet Andrew Hauser, the outsider from the UK who’ll be deputy governor of the RBA
November 2023 · The ConversationAustralia’s inflation rate now starts with a 4, allowing the RBA to hold fire on rates
September 2023 · The ConversationHigh interest rates are not bad news for everyone – just ask savers, importers and Australians heading overseas
July 2023 · The ConversationMeet Michele Bullock, the RBA insider tasked with making the Reserve Bank more outward-looking as its next governor
May 2023 · The ConversationVictoria bites a $117 billion bullet, and begins the long march of land tax reform
April 2023 · The ConversationReserve Bank revolution: How Jim Chalmers will recraft the RBA for the 21st century
January 2023 · The ConversationWith inflation still rising, the RBA will almost certainly lift interest rates in February
September 2022 · The ConversationWhy the Reserve Bank’s record loss of $37 billion was actually good for Australia
July 2022 · The ConversationRates rise to 1.35% – and there’s no stopping now: the RBA’s on a mission to whip inflation
June 2022 · The ConversationThe RBA’s pre-COVID failure to cut interest rates faster may have cost as much as 270,000 jobs
May 2022 · The ConversationRBA Governor Philip Lowe is hiking interest rates. Worst case, it’ll mean an extra $600 per month on a $500,000 mortgage
April 2022 · The ConversationClive Palmer’s promise to cap mortgage rates at 3% would make it much harder to get a home loan
April 2022 · The ConversationThe RBA has lost some patience on rates, but it isn’t rushing to push them up. Here’s why
March 2022 · The ConversationGame of Loans: the Reserve Bank loses its heir apparent to Fortescue’s green fund
February 2022 · The ConversationBuilding back better: how RBA Governor Philip Lowe sees the year ahead
November 2021 · The ConversationAustralia’s Reserve Bank signals the end of ultra-cheap money. Here’s what it will mean
May 2021 · The ConversationThe treasurer says his “patent box” will boost innovation. The evidence says it won’t
30th September 2020, The ConversationWhich Australian destinations lose, and which may win, without international tourism
11th August 2020, The ConversationSmall businesses are being starved of funds: here’s how to make their loans cheaper
1st June 2020, The ConversationAustralia’s first service sector recession will be unlike those that have gone before it
17th March 2020, The Conversation‘Yield curve control’: the Reserve Bank’s plan for when cash rate cuts no longer work
26th November 2019, The ConversationThe RBA has a new brain. It has thoughts on what’ll happen after interest rates hit zero
23 June 2025 · ABC · Melbourne DriveTwo experts explain how everyday Australians will be impacted by the Israel-Iran war
17 March 2026 · The Conversation · via Evening ReportRBA narrowly votes to lift interest rates. The Middle East war may determine if there’s more to come
25 January 2025 · ABC NewsThe federal government becomes Rex Airlines' largest secured creditor, sparking talk of nationalisation
11 June 2024 · ABC NewsVictorian government accused of 'unfair' land tax as couple slugged for granny flat housing elderly mother
7 May 2024 · ABC NewsVictorian budget 2024 confirms delay to Airport Rail Link, net debt still set to grow
27 September 2023 · ABC NewsThe Albanese government blew its shot at setting a historic new unemployment target
18 September 2023 · ABC NewsMichele Bullock begins as RBA governor, investors await overseas interest rates decisions, tech stocks drag ASX lower — as it happened
15 September 2023 · ABC NewsAustralian share market rallies, ACCC to block Qantas-China Eastern alliance — as it happened
29 June 2023 · ABC News'Really damaging' if Philip Lowe were reappointed as Reserve Bank governor, economist says
24 April 2023 · ABC NewsThe criticisms behind the Reserve Bank review's recommendations for a new board, updated mandate
28 February 2023 · ABC NewsWill the Reserve Bank review achieve anything? What difference could it make to interest rates?
24 February 2023 · ABC NewsRetirees asked to help fill labour shortages in Warrnambool as council tries new approach
12 May 2022 · ABC NewsClive Palmer's United Australia Party is promising to cap mortgage interest rates. Can it be done?
9 May 2022 · ABC NewsWith high prices and soaring rents, what are political parties promising to do about housing?