“We are all expecting” another interest rate rise when the Reserve Bank meets in the week parliament resumes, Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says.
“But Treasurer Jim Chalmers expressed hope yesterday that these interest rate
rises are biting and therefore we might have hit an inflation peak,” Mr Clennell said.
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