{"id":543671,"date":"2026-03-16T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:32:30","slug":"rba-interest-rate-rise-just-the-start-as-petrol-prices-compound-australias-inflation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543671\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA interest rate rise just the start as petrol prices compound Australia\u2019s inflation problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reserve Bank had plenty of inflation worries well before the US and Israel decided to trigger a global economic crisis. Not the Iran war weighs even more heavily on the central bank\u2019s unpopular role as Australia\u2019s financial disciplinarian.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation has been climbing rather than falling, with headline annual inflation at 3.8 per cent and the spike in oil prices certain to drive that higher.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reserve Bank had plenty of inflation worries well before the US and Israel decided to trigger a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-543671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}