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MNI: Budget To Add Inflationary Pressure, Stay RBA's Hand

(MNI) Melbourne

The government's assertion that extra spending will decrease inflation is false, former RBA and government economists tell MNI.

Measures to support households within Australia’s 2024-25 federal budget could lower headline inflation in the short term but also sustain underlying inflation and delay Reserve Bank of Australia rate cuts into next year, former staff have told MNI.

The front-loading of spending gives the budget an inflationary bias despite government claims that its measures to contain the cost of living will have the opposite effect, noted Mark Wooden, professorial fellow at the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne and former Fair Work Commission Annual Wage Review panel member.

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Measures to support households within Australia’s 2024-25 federal budget could lower headline inflation in the short term but also sustain underlying inflation and delay Reserve Bank of Australia rate cuts into next year, former staff have told MNI.

The front-loading of spending gives the budget an inflationary bias despite government claims that its measures to contain the cost of living will have the opposite effect, noted Mark Wooden, professorial fellow at the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne and former Fair Work Commission Annual Wage Review panel member.

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