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Governor Lowe Concerned New Board May Have Too Many Economists

RBA

RBA Governor Lowe pointed out at his Senate Committee appearance that the new Board model suggested by the RBA review was really no different from the structure of the last 60 years. He was frustrated though with the implication that he makes the decisions and reiterated that the Board has an in depth discussion and does vote. He was concerned that the external members of the Board should not all be economists and monetary policy experts, as the diversity of expertise in terms of business, public policy and labour has been very helpful. Lowe was concerned that the definition of expert could be too narrow in the new model.

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