Ted O’Brien
Chalmers admits wage growth at risk with rate rise on cards
The December inflation figures showed prices increased by a full percentage point, taking the annual rate to 3.8 per cent. Chalmers admitted it was “higher than anyone would like”.
- Brittany Busch
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Moderates threatened to quit the Liberal frontbench over net zero. Here’s what they say now
After their faction was hollowed out by successive election defeats, many moderates appear to have fallen in line behind Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s abandonment of net zero.
- James Massola and Nick Newling
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- Inflation
Chance of rate cut this year all but vanishes after inflation surges
Prices across the economy hit a 15-month high in September in a “material miss” against the Reserve Bank’s expectations, reducing the chances of a rate cut next week.
- Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
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- China relations
‘An element of trust’: Inside Xi and Albanese’s warm, funny private lunch in Beijing
Ahead of the first days of parliament since his election win, Anthony Albanese has given an insight into his behind-closed-doors lunch with China’s autocratic leader.
- Paul Sakkal
‘Voldemort policy’: Labor, Coalition deny hiding energy plans in nuclear election
An earthquake shook a region slated for one of Peter Dutton’s nuclear plants and the PM visited another in a campaign in which the energy debate has been quietly shifted off stage.
- Mike Foley
Fact check: Have emissions risen under the Albanese government?
Emissions reduction has flat-lined since the government was elected, due in part to a bounce-back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Mike Foley