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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

Borrowers may wish the government could overrule the RBA but Australia is not Argentina or Turkey

Treasurer Jim Chalmers arrives for Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House
Scrapping the treasurer’s power to overturn Reserve Bank of Australia decisions was the first out of 51 recommendations from the RBA Review. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Albanese government’s plan to scrap the treasurer’s power to overturn decisions of the Reserve Bank shouldn’t surprise anybody.

After all, out of 51 recommendations from the RBA review – all of which were accepted by the government in principle – the annulment of such power was the very first listed.

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