Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I suspect they'll be talking a little bit more about housing and house prices, because that's a big issue.
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And then at the end of the session, they'll have a vote.
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Who votes for rates up, twenty five basis points, who votes for steady?
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And it's a simple majority that determines whether rates go up, stay the same, or when circumstances are different, they come down.
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Oh indeed.
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And in fact the decision I think it was three meetings ago.
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Uh was five to four.
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So as near as you can get to a dead heat when there's nine people voting, of course, to hike rates.
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That is that and so one person had one of those people who voted for a rate hike said, Oh, look, I think we'll hold, um, they would have been on hold.
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So that's how fine it can be.
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But it obviously the monetary policy boards uh made up of the governor, the deputy governor as the two RBA representatives, the Treasury Secretary, so uh Jenny Wilkinson, who's uh the Treasury Secretary.
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Secretary is an ex-officio member of the board.
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So there is their capacity as Treasury Secretary.
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And six other people, academics, labor market people, specialists, if you like.
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We've got people from the business sector.
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all on the monetary policy board, all knowledgeable and they make up the remainder and they chat about the economy.
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And yes, as we know, uh smart and decent people can disagree on what the right idea is, but of course the majority
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Majority rules and that's what makes the decision.
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Look, I I think it's good having the Treasury Secretary on the board, uh, whoever that happens to be, and whatever the government of the day happens to be, because the Treasury Secretary uh knows uh better than most people what is happening in fiscal policy, what's happening to government side of spending, taxing, what's happening to revenue flows.
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So it's not just the decisions that are being taken on capital gains tax or extra spending on p different
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