LISTEN: The biggest rate rise in 20 years is just the start ABCNewsDaily
If you have a mortgage, it's a financially painful time, with interest rate hikes in consecutive months.
The latest one caught just about everyone off guard, coming in higher than expected at half a percentage point - the biggest increase in more than 20 years. Today, the ABC's business editor, Ian Verrender, on why the Reserve Bank is hitting us so hard when the cost of everything else is going up too.
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