{"id":990722,"date":"2023-02-12T23:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=359534"},"modified":"2023-02-12T23:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:46:28","slug":"nothing-untoward-in-rba-head-meeting-bankers-shorten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/12\/nothing-untoward-in-rba-head-meeting-bankers-shorten\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing untoward\u2019 in RBA head meeting bankers: Shorten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c701e6a0-0d3b-445f-87f5-6a3f7902c811.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c701e6a0-0d3b-445f-87f5-6a3f7902c811.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c701e6a0-0d3b-445f-87f5-6a3f7902c811-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/c701e6a0-0d3b-445f-87f5-6a3f7902c811-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The government has defended Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe&#8217;s decision to give a private briefing to a group of bankers on interest rate hikes before making public statements. Dr Lowe will be questioned about the hikes to the cash rate at a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday, as pressure mounts regarding his future in the [&#8230;]\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/nothing-untoward-in-rba-head-meeting-bankers-shorten\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has defended Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe&#8217;s decision to give a private briefing to a group of bankers on interest rate hikes before making public statements. Dr Lowe will be questioned about the hikes to the cash rate at a Sen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990725,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990722\/revisions\/990725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}