2010 Election
UPDATE: As of 5pm all four banks have already passed on the interest rate increase.
For the second time in as many years, the Reserve Bank has helped cement the banking community’s reputation as a cuddly bunch of warm-hearted funsters by using Melbourne Cup Day to stick it to home-owners.
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While you were munching on some prawns the RBA increased rates from 3.25 per cent to 3.5 per cent, resisting the temptation to go for a much more dramatic and painful 0.5 per cent rise, but still sticking by its warning that there would be more more pain to come.
Many people with mortgages will shrug this one off – we’re still about $700 a month better off in terms of repayments than we were when the GFC hit.
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It’s a strange time of year in Canberra.
Millions of bogong moths descend upon Parliament House’s Capital Hill during their annual migration. Accompanying them are hundreds of big black birds against a grey sky: crows, magpies and currawongs flooding Parliament’s many courtyards to feast on the clueless prey lying in around the building.
Walking through this bleak scene I was thankful for the fact that I at least wasn’t a Coalition MP looking out my window at huge crows devouring dying and confused helpless moths – it would’ve all been a bit too close to home.
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Old Clive says:
The pot is always calling the kettle black, what policies came out of labor during those bad ten years that we had to endure under that man. Where were the alternative policies then and where are the viable ones now, the world is spinning on its axis around the sun… Read more »
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adelaide says:
There’s a zombie like element to the opposition. A policyless shuffle towards office. It might work! Read more »
Anyone wondering why Kevin Rudd continues to defy political gravity could do well to consider the latest Essential Report that drills down into the issues of importance to Australian voters.
Like a human pogo stick, Rudd just keeps bouncing back: it doesn’t seem to matter what he’s hit with – global financial meltdown, environmental destruction, even an influx of asylum seekers.
No matter the political issue – and we have tested 13 of them – Rudd has the Opposition covered – even the traditional Liberal strong points of economic management and interest rates can not deliver Turnbull a win.
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Daniel Alexander-Head says:
In response to Zeta’s comments yesterday on the validity of the results, it was a shame to see that they were so quick to dismiss the report when they neither have an understanding of how the sample is made up and sourced or about representation. What little solution they offered… Read more »
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