Australia 🇩đŸ‡ș is set to change how interest rates are set with a new “external monetary policy board”.

Haven’t had a chance to read much in to this yet but on its face, it sounds even worse than what we have now. Any #AUStriches got further info?

https://archive.is/fnqO7

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Sounds from what I caught on abc today - more layers of out of touch bureaucracy to fuck with the money

I haven't come across any info on who appoints the board and what sort of checks and balances will be in place, but you have to assume this is not being done to fix anything but to enable a more sophisticated form of grift.

There is nothing specific in the report from my skimming: https://rbareview.gov.au/sites/rbareview.gov.au/files/2023-04/rbareview-report.pdf

Basically says “diversity” over and over, my god these people are absolute fukn commies.

Watch them put Sally McManus in to one of these seats. They’ve been running this angle for a while: https://www.actu.org.au/actu-media/media-releases/2022/actu-calls-for-rba-overhaul

Yeah - get Sally in there, along with Stan Grant and Catherine McGregor.

Seems like the main purpose is in the last paragraph:

the Treasury Secretary is on the board to “provide an independent economic perspective” which is able to “challenge the view of the RBA executive”

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 sounds like they want to move the decision on interest rate rises to the gov?? Doesn’t sound very ‘non-partisan’. Not sure though, haven’t looked into it
Nothing would surprise me in this country though


Yea pretty much. I posted the report in a followup if you want to read it, the word “bipartisan” appears 10 times so forget ‘non-partisan’, this appears to be the parasite class consolidating power.

The document has a bunch of words pandering to the zeitgeist. But what that means when it comes to legislating the recommendations - that is an entirely different story. Look for unrecommended earmarks in the bills when they get released...