Black Friday sales before Christmas contributed to price falls in furniture, footwear and clothing, suggesting some of the price relief may only be temporary.

Australia’s annual inflation slowed to 3.4% in November 2025 from 3.8% in October, below market forecasts of 3.7%, and remained above the RBA’s 2–3% target, marking the lowest inflation since August.

Cash-strapped mortgage holders won’t get any rate relief in 2026, even as Australia’s unemployment rate is predicted to spike ...

Australia is forecast to face a prolonged period of above-average inflation and below-trend economic growth, as global ...

Higher prices for recreation and culture, as well as the cost of living, were the drivers for a rise in monthly inflation for ...

Australian consumer prices rose by less than forecast in November, data showed on Wednesday, but core inflation showed enough stickiness that investors still saw a risk interest rates would have to be ...

The latest CPI data takes the pressure off the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates at its next policy meeting.

A top Australian central banker said on Thursday that a slowdown in consumer price inflation for November was "helpful", but ...

Australia’s November CPI release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that housing inflation rose by 5.2% ...

Australia’s core inflation slowed in November, supporting the case for the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates unchanged for now as it assesses the impact of earlier policy easing.

Australia's headline inflation rate in the second quarter of the year slipped to its lowest point since March 2021, coming in at 2.1% year over year, compared to 2.4% in the preceding period. This was ...