The Taxpayers’ Union warns that rising inflation and continued government spending undermine fiscal credibility, urging the Reserve Bank to maintain caution and calling Budget 2026 a critical opportunity to restore fiscal responsibility and control inflation.
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Oh, power, food. A bit of a diesel petrol kicker came through in the month of March, but I guess if you step back and look at the bigger picture, the bigger picture is that we're going to take an inflationary hit in Q2, the June quarter. You kind of hope that the starting position would not have been 3.1% i.e. outside of 1 to 3% inflation target. People were saying headline rate might be down at 2.7, 2.8. We didn't get a four, we got a... A flat line number, 3.1% in the December quarter last year has become 3.1% March 2026. So we're going to see that go boring north in the June quarter where you get the real impact of this whole mooshock.
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economy drifting beyond policy goals
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