Pop Growth Spurs Inflation, Interest Hikes: SPA

Sustainable Population Australia

The Reserve Bank has increased the cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 3.85 per cent, in its first rate rise in more than two years. The Bank is responding to inflation, which picked up materially in the second half of 2025.

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that Australia's rapid increase in population growth is a key contributor to inflation and that reducing Net Overseas Migration (NOM) to 70,000 per annum will mitigate inflationary pressures.

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