Here’s why: Only a year ago Australia’s inflation rate was 2 per cent - at the bottom of the Reserve Bank’s target band. The relentless march of petrol prices, food prices, mortgages and rents has now pushed it up to 4.5 per cent and may push it even higher. So should we be worried? Probably not, in the view of the Reserve Bank and its Governor Glenn Stevens. read more

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