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The countries share a 4.1% unemployment rate. What other clues might indicate the political fate of Australia?

Michele Bullock keeps telling us productivity is flatlining. How it changes may well determine if the Reserve Bank will tolerate wage rises beyond 3%

Stronger than expected population growth made inflation hardier than most experts predicted and property prices defied successive rate rises

The weak economy probably means the next RBA rates move – short of an inflation surprise next month – will be a cut

Each of Australia’s big four banks is now predicting a rate rise in six days’ time on Melbourne Cup Tuesday. It would add another A$77 to the monthly cost of servicing a $500,000 mortgage and be enough to take the total extra monthly impost since rates began climbing to more…

The opposition leader knows well that his rhetoric is hypocritical because his quoted numbers are the same as when he was immigration minister.

Generational factors are more to blame for the housing crisis than hipsters’ love of expensive smashed avo on toast.

So, you think you know why rents climbed.

When the governor and colleagues faced the economics committee, rates were the focus – how high will they go, and will they stall the economy?