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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: inflation falls to two-year low; Iran on alert for US response; and Melbourne’s new poo museum

View of residential properties in Melbourne
Inflation has fallen to 4.1% for the December quarter – below market expectations of 4.3% – fanning expectations of a future rate cut. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Good afternoon. In some good news, inflation has fallen to a two-year low, coming in at 4.1% for the December quarter – below market expectations of 4.3% – and fanning expectations of a future rate cut.

“What we’re seeing here is inflation is slowing, real wages [are] growing, and from the first of July we will see tax cuts flowing,” the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said, welcoming the latest CPI figures.

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