Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

Last week, the Reserve Bank governor, Michele Bullock, stated:

… it doesn't take much additional spending to make the job of returning inflation to target more challenging.

Why is this government spending at a 40-year high, outside of a recession, while preparing even more interventions that risk keeping inflation and therefore interest rates higher for longer?