{"id":911485,"date":"2026-09-30T22:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911485\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:08:18","slug":"why-did-the-rba-hike-australias-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911485\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did The RBA Hike Australia&#8217;s Interest Rates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Reserve Bank of Australia raised the cash rate to its highest level in 15 years, saying the measure was taken to control \u201celevated\u201d inflation. We\u2019re expecting that the RBA could continue to hike prices in the months to come, as a range of factors influence the prices of goods and services here in Australia. In today\u2019s podcast, we\u2019re going to chat through the RBA\u201ds decision, get to understand why it was made and what it says about the state of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to TDA&#8217;s Finance Newsletter here: Finance%20https:\/\/finance.thedailyaus.com.au\/<\/p>\n<p>Host: Sam Koslowski and Zara Seidler<br \/>Producer:\u00a0Rosa Bowden<\/p>\n<p>Want to listen to more episodes of The Daily Aus&#8217; podcast? Follow us:<br \/>Spotify \u25ba https:\/\/spoti.fi\/46UTaD7<br \/>Apple \u25ba https:\/\/apple.co\/3MiPu4I<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Aus is a media company focused on delivering accessible and digestible news to young people. We are completely independent. Support us by subscribing to our channel here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3l6IFpt<\/p>\n<p>Or check out our other platforms here:<br \/>Website \u25ba https:\/\/thedailyaus.com.au<br \/>Instagram \u25ba https:\/\/instagram.com\/thedailyaus<br \/>TikTok \u25ba https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@thedailyaus<\/p>\n<p>Note: Captions are auto-generated <\/p>\n<p>Shot on Fujifilm: https:\/\/www.fujifilm.com\/au\/en<\/p>\n<p>#news  #podcast  #thedailyaus<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, the Reserve Bank of Australia raised the cash rate to its highest level in 15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-911485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911485","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=911485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}