Adam Lang

But I tend to go towards what is the story with the biggest economic impact?

And feeding into that, obviously, I mean, I'm preaching to a journalist here, so I feel bad doing it, but topicality and timeliness, right?

But then I'd like to throw in a bit of my subjective bias, which in my case is anything with reform in it is typically going to get a thumbs up.

And more for Michael than for Sean or me, but melodrama.

If you can bring some pizzazz to the story, all the better for it.

I think, just independently, of course, it has to be interest rates.

The Reserve Bank...

Of course.

Of course.

I was always going to go with that for my story, Sean.

Always.

The Reserve Bank, as we know, lifted official rate for the third time this year to 4.35%.

And that adds about $90 a month to the cost of a $600 mortgage.

That's bad enough.

But then the bank and its governor, Michelle Bullock, made it very clear that there could be another rate hike on the way.

So the pain may not be over.

And this is because inflation is not yet under control and they predict it won't be sometime until late next year that it could be.

So obviously, high energy prices have pushed up costs, particularly in recent times.

But even before the Middle East conflict, inflation was on the rise.

Nowadays, members of the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Board vote on the decision and we get to know that vote.