Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Second tier of RBI thinking.
That's a long winded way of saying, yeah, I've I I was wrong.
I th I th I thought that'd hop be on hold until next year.
It looks like they're going to have to hike.
They've been one of my favorite uh sets of numbers this year because they're increasing, adding to the supply of dwellings.
And that's great.
You know, we want this housing affordability sort of issue satisfied, if you like, by uh rising um new supply.
Look, the numbers month on month are very, very volatile.
I think in the last couple of months there's been a couple of very big um uh apartment block developments which have boosted the numbers.
They can quickly unwind.
And so look, the market's looking for a fall, but that does not um cause the trend for growth to be sort of put off course.
So probably a negative for the month, but the trend's still being pretty good in terms of new construction.
You're
It tells us
our exposure to the international economy.
Unlike the international trade in goods numbers, this is trade in goods, that's a subset of it, but it's also trade in services.
The the big one's tourism, and the big two are tourism and education.
So when we have a holiday overseas, that's counted as an import of a service because we're paying for hotel rooms overseas and food overseas.
So we're import effectively importing those services to Australia.
When a foreigner comes here.
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