Shadow Finance Minister Jane Hume says the Reserve Bank of Australia needs to work a “little bit harder” to bring down inflation to between two and three per cent.
“We saw inflation coming back down… the RBA needs to work that little bit harder to pull on its interest rate levers, pull on
its monetary policy levers in order to rein in inflation back down to that two to three per cent,” Ms Hume told Sky News Australia.
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