Host (Craig)

It is a Thursday, the 16th of June for 2022.

And coming up in just a moment, we're talking with Alice Stoltz, Domain's National Managing Editor, about mortgage interest rates and what your mindset could be towards them to help navigate through them.

So it's an interesting conversation coming up in just a moment.

And I see that monkeypox has spread to Western Australia with a person infected with the disease.

There are now five cases of monkeypox in New South Wales and three cases in Victoria.

And it comes as the World Health Organization warned of the virus posing a real risk and they've called for an emergency summit.

Gosh, there's always something, isn't there, just to keep us guessing and on our toes.

And in Sydney, fine and sunny with blue skies and a high of 20 degrees.

A contrasting difference in Melbourne though, just one word for you, showers and 15 is your forecast high.

Brisbane expect another sunny day with 24 degrees.

And in Perth, expect a little bit of cloud hanging around, but mainly dry, and your top is 22 degrees.

enjoy your morning coffee wake up every morning to the real estate podcast well are we living in a third world country when it comes to australia's energy crisis overnight hospitals were ordered to cut down on electricity use in an effort to avoid rolling blackouts albanese he said his message to the energy companies is that they've got a responsibility to their customers

And they've got to do the right thing.

He says that we need to end the sort of nonsense that we've seen over the last decade, where there's been 22 different energy policies announced, but none of them landed.

And it's probably an issue the new government has to take the lead on and negotiate a way out of this all too familiar mess.

Well, whichever way you look at it, the rise in the cash rate is here to stay for a while, isn't it?

How do you fight against it?

What can you do to improve your anti-mortgage rate rises that have been unleashed?

Well, sadly, many would say probably nothing, zero, zip.

Just a classic example of a homeowner being squeezed because of the runaway inflation rate.