Positive metric: RBA governor Michele Bullock speaks at a conference in Sydney. The central bank has been trying to slow demand in the economy to ease price pressures, and while it has succeeded in the former, the latter is failing to follow the script. — Bloomberg
SYDNEY: Australia’s economic growth remained sluggish last quarter as a surge in government spending underpinned the expansion, highlighting the central bank’s policy challenge as inflation is still stubbornly sticky.
Gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.8% from a year earlier, the weakest reading – excluding the pandemic – since December 1991, when the economy was mired in recession, official data showed yesterday.
