CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's conservative government unveiled an economic blueprint on Tuesday aimed at creating jobs and growth in "extraordinary times", just hours after the country's central bank slashed interest rates to an all-time low.
Stealing the thunder from the annual budget, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut the cash rate by a quarter percentage point to 1.75 percent, citing surprisingly low inflation and uncertainty about the global outlook.
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