RBA reveals the number of Australians who’d be out of work if it just focused on lowering inflation
Sydney Morning Herald
by Shane WrightMarch 2, 2026
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has defended its approach to managing inflation, revealing that aggressively hiking interest rates could have led to nearly 200,000 more Australians being unemployed. In a speech by RBA chief economist Sarah Hunter, internal modeling showed that pushing interest rates higher, as other countries did
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Originally published on Sydney Morning Herald on 3/2/2026