By Rachel Ong, Alan Duncan, Chris Twomey, Ken Leong, and Silvia Salazar, Curtin University
People have been spending more in New South W…
By Rachel Ong, Alan Duncan, Chris Twomey, Ken Leong, and Silvia Salazar, Curtin University
People have been spending more in New South W…
The announcement of the September quarter Consumer Price Index brought with it a small wave of hope that official interest rates could now b…
The consumer price index rose by 1.4% in the September quarter, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. …
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says that it will use next week’s consumer price index data to decide at its next meeting whether it wil…
Inflation was flat in the fourth quarter, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, despite economists largely expecting a 0.6% incr…
Consumer inflation rose by 0.6% in the third quarter, from 0.8% the previous quarter, in a result that met expectations and strengthens hope…
The Australian sharemarket has plummeted a further 2.75% this morning to an eight-month low after the Dow Jones suffered a disastrous 900-po…
The Australian consumer price index rose by 0.9% during the March quarter, compared with a rise of 0.5% during the previous quarter, accordi…
The Reserve Bank uses three measures to get a handle on the ‘underlying’ measure of inflation. Two are so-called ‘statistical’ measures – …
The Australian consumer price index has risen above market expectations, with a 0.5% increase during the December quarter, according to the …
It would be a far less complicated world if there was just one measure of inflation. But unfortunately there isn’t. While the general public…
