Economic News

Forecasts age quickly. Barely two months after the RBA finalised its August projections, the minutes of the Monetary Policy Board's September meeting recorded that staff expected underlying inflation in the September quarter to be higher than forecast in August.

For many households, the question about inflation is no longer technical. It is simply: when will price rises stop feeling unusual? Governor Michele Bullock gave a sense of how long the problem has lasted at her 29 September media conference, noting that inflation has …

Two stories that rarely share a headline ended up side by side in the RBA's September rate decision. One is an old-fashioned energy shock: conflict in the Middle East, dearer oil and higher fuel bills. The other is thoroughly modern: a global investment boom …

Most coverage of the artificial intelligence boom focuses on what is being built: data centres, chips and the software that runs on them. The RBA's October 2026 Financial Stability Review (FSR) draws attention to a less visible question: how all of that is being …

Imagine two economies that both report annual inflation of 4 per cent. In the first, the number is driven by a handful of items, say a jump in fuel and a spike in one or two volatile categories, while most prices are rising modestly. …

Superannuation is usually thought of as a slow-moving, long-term pool of savings, generally preserved until retirement. So why would a central bank run a stress test built around a sudden rush for the exits?

Business failures tend to make headlines one collapse at a time, which can make it hard to tell whether a wave is building or whether the stories are isolated. The RBA's October 2026 Financial Stability Review (FSR), released on 1 October, steps back to …