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The Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe, has warned Australians to be prepared for higher interest rates,by the end of the year and it must be brought under control. Lowe said on Tuesday night he was predicting inflation to rise to 7%. That compares with current inflation of 5.1%.
Anthony Albanese is experiencing a post-election boost not seen since Kevin Rudd was elected in 2007,first Guardian Essential poll since the 21 May election shows 59% of voters approve of the job Albanese is doing as prime minister, including 19% who “strongly approve”, compared with just 18% who do not. In the final poll before the election, just 42% of voters approved of Albanese’s performance.
The European court of human rights has made a dramatic 11th-hour intervention into the British government’s controversial plansthat could ground the inaugural flight to the east African nation. Lawyers for one of the asylum seekers due to fly made a successful emergency application to the ECHR after exhausting applications to UK courts. The decision is a blow for Boris Johnson’s flagship policy of sending asylum seekers 4,000 miles to the east African country.
Labor’s election victory was aided by Australia’s rejection of the spectre of three more years of Scott Morrison
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