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Vital Signs. Yet another year of steady rates. What's the point of the RBA inflation target?

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Vital Signs. Yet another year of steady rates. What's the point of the RBA inflation target?Economists expect the cash rate to remain steady for yet another year even though inflation is on the floor. Shutterstock

The Reserve Bank kicks off its first meeting for the year next Tuesday facing the same dilemma it did throughout last year.

It hasn’t got easier.

The bank has a very public, fairly clear objective: to keep inflation between...

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What Labor has to fear is the Big Scare

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Asked this week to nominate Labor’s main problem, one insider said “time”. As the very remote possibility of a March election drifted away, the opposition bunkered down for the long wait until May 11 or 18.

Labor has an entrenched lead in the polls and, from its frontbench to its campaign planning, it is match-ready. But...

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Why Australians are falling in love with American football, and what it means for local leagues

  • Written by: Adam Karg, Senior research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
Why Australians are falling in love with American football, and what it means for local leaguesNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is on the cusp of becoming the player with the most Super Bowl wins in NFL history. Tens of millions of viewers around the the world will be watching.Larry W. Smith/EPA

When the New England Patriots face the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl on Sunday night (US eastern time), they will be cheered on by...

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  2. How we traced the underwater volcanic ancestry of Lord Howe Island
  3. Australia is counting on cooking the books to meet its climate targets
  4. How Australia's political ageism may be robbing us of our best leaders
  5. will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?
  6. it's time to step up, free press needs allies
  7. Hakeem Al-Araibi's case is a test of world soccer's human rights credentials. Here's why
  8. Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis
  9. History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren't
  10. Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  11. a partial defence of the hipster
  12. What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes
  13. Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
  14. Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school
  15. Why slow TV deserves our (divided) attention
  16. A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions
  17. Coalition gains in first Newspoll of 2019, but big swings to Labor in Victorian seats; NSW is tied
  18. Agriculture Department refuses release of live sheep video as FOI shows heat stress suffering
  19. what is an Interpol red notice and how does it work?
  20. how to make our homes comfortable without cranking up the aircon
  21. Not another online petition! But here's why you should think before deleting it
  22. Sperm donation is testing what it means to be a legal parent, all the way to the High Court
  23. Here's what happens to our plastic recycling when it goes offshore
  24. how conservation law is failing the black-throated finch
  25. How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination
  26. how groups and individuals spread racist hate online
  27. Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon
  28. what causes bloating and gassiness?
  29. Why Trump's wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy
  30. Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer's heatwave in NZ
  31. The off-topic Conversation #174
  32. how did spoken language start?
  33. No surplus, no share market growth, no lift in wage growth. Economic survey points to bleaker times post-election
  34. Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will
  35. Flying taxis within five years? Not likely
  36. Australian school stories on screen
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  38. To predict droughts, don't look at the skies. Look in the soil... from space
  39. Morrison commits to 1.25 million new jobs over five years
  40. View from The Hill: Independent push against Frydenberg
  41. Too big to fail. The risks to Australian taxpayers from New Zealand banks
  42. The 'sharing economy' simply dresses up our consumerist tendencies in a more palatable ideology
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  45. María, a slave in Manila who resisted sexual exploitation
  46. Lift teacher status to improve student performance
  47. Two more Morrison ministers head for the door
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