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Inflation remains in RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024
... at 2.1% in October and remains the lowest annual inflation since July 2021," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said. The top contributors to the annual movement at the group level were food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.3%), recreation ...

Wages grow 3.5% for the year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
... year, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said this was the first time annual wage growth had fallen below 4% since the June 2023 quarter. Commonwealth Bank senior ...

Inflation falls within RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... which occurred during the COVID-19 outbreak and was driven by free childcare," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said. "Annually, the September quarter's rise of 2.8% was down from 3.8% in the June quarter. This is the lowest annual inflation ...

Inflation debate: Albo says rebates will keep inflation down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
... yesterday is heading in the right direction. And that's a good thing." However, ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt specifically pointed to the government's energy rebates as having a material impact on the CPI figures. The ABS data found ...

Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... electricity and fuel had a significant impact on the annual CPI measure this month", ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said. "When prices for some items move by large amounts, measures of underlying inflation like the CPI excluding automotive ...

Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... in the March quarter to 0.9% in June, marking the highest uptick in 12 years. ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said: "The stronger June quarterly rise for the public sector was largely due to the newly synchronised timing pattern of Commonwealth ...

No one immune to cost-of-living pain: ABS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... June quarter, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said increases in living costs in the June quarter ranged from 1.2% to 1.4% depending on the spending patterns of different ...

Inflation rises but RBA hike not inevitable

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... "The June quarter rise is the same as the 1% rise in the March 2024 quarter," ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said. "The annual rise of 3.8% for the June quarter is up from 3.6% in the March quarter. This is the first increase in annual ...

Inflation eases to 4.3%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
... these items from the headline CPI to provide a view of underlying inflation," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said. "When excluding these volatile items from the monthly CPI indicator, the annual rise in November was 4.8%, lower than ...

Inflation rises to 5.2%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... changes like automotive fuel, fruit and vegetables, and holiday travel," explained ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt. "It can be helpful to exclude these items from the headline CPI to provide a view of underlying inflation. When excluding ...
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