IT is distressing to see the federal government legislating by presidential decree to the total exclusion of any consultative process both within and outside parliament. The number of ordinances promulgated by the current federal government during the past 43 months of its term has already bestowed upon it the dubious distinction of issuing the highest number of ordinances per year among successive governments, led by different political parties, since 2008. Ordinances, in general, are abhorrent

SYDNEY: Reserve Bank of Australia( RBA) chief Philip Lowe faces a major communications challenge tomorrow as speculation mounts he will scrap a bond-yield target after the central bank allowed a market selloff to continue without defending it. Yields started surging after data on Wednesday showed core inflation jumped back into the RBA’s 2-3% target for the first time since 2015.At one point on Friday traders drove up the rate on the April 2024 bond, which the bank aims to keep at 0.1%, to more

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