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Stand by for the oddly designed Stage 3 tax cut that will send middle earners backwards and give high earners thousands

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands.

The first increase in the current round will add about A$65 a month to the cost of paying off a $500,000 mortgage.

The second will add a bit more. If, as the bank’s forecasts assume, there are another four such increases this year, that’s a...

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