Richard Arnold
speaker
3,637 appearances
61 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Richard Arnold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But, you know, there are a few other categories as well.
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There is a bit of general cost increase in what I call the kind of cost plus parts of this economy.
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Electricity costs, for example, rising quite steeply.
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You know, a few other kind of sectors like that, which are perhaps less competitive, I suppose.
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A lot of government charges, for example, rising.
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Well, I mean, you really need to kind of introduce probably a bit of competitiveness into some of those parts of the economy and perhaps put a bit of pressure on the government-related sectors of this economy to, instead of when faced with a cost increase, push it onto us to actually make a few changes in their own house.
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You know, I thought that the June quarter CPI was pretty encouraging in that regard.
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We certainly saw plenty of inflation because those petrol prices and related costs had all gone up quite a bit.
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But what we didn't see is core inflation rising, and that would be the evidence you'd be looking for of those broader, you know, let's take the opportunity to put our prices up and save our margin-type behaviour.
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Well, I didn't see very much of that, so I thought that was pretty encouraging.
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Good.
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Only thing I would say, though, very early days.
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From what I could hear, I might even go search that.
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Do you ever watch a YouTube video of someone singing?
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Of course I do.
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Do you ever look at music like that?
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Very often.
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So basically, Ruben was being given the opportunity to read it.
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But if you want caucus support, it's only fair to ask for us all to see it and understand what it is and have a talk about it.
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No, but we'll wait and see what happens on Thursday because I think it's not incredibly clear.
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