"I think it's going to be a slow grind out of the situation that we're in."
"Our view is that we're going to get a faster slowing in the Australian economic backdrop that will really push the Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates in early 2025."
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"That's going to help keep the headline inflation rate basically around where it is, just under 3 per cent year-on-year."
"Historically, we've actually seen that the unemployment rate doesn't actually peak until well after the cash rate starts being cut, so we could still see the unemployment rate drifting up in the second half of next year."
"The government there seems to be quite reticent to go back to its old manual of 'Let's do massive infrastructure spends!', which Australia used to benefit from."
"To the extent that China is negatively affected by a trade war with the US — that will spill over to Australia."
"Improvement overall, but very modest improvement and nothing to sing and dance about."