Odds of fifth interest rate hike this year likely to shorten as RBA deputy warns inflation outlook ‘worsening’ 21. October 2026 (01:19) Andrew Hauser says central bank faces ‘hard choices’ as it looks to balance risks of entrenched inflation with desire to protect labour marketGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAndrew Hauser, the Reserve Bank’s deputy governor, has reignited talk of a fifth interest rate hike on Melbourne Cup day, warning of “hard choices” ahead in response to an inflation outlook that “looks materially worse” than the central bank had expected two months ago.Hauser, speaking at an investment bank conference in Sydney on Wednesday morning, said the RBA monetary policy board members were juggling a slowing economy with fears that Australians were starting to lose faith in the central bank’s ability to bring inflation back to the 2.5% target. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Alabama governor commutes sentence of prisoner on death row 21. October 2026 (01:18) Toforest Johnson’s death penalty reduced to life in prison without parole over doubts about his convictionToforest Johnson, an Alabama death row inmate, will no longer face execution after the state’s Republican governor commuted his sentence amid increasing doubts about his conviction.Kay Ivey, the Alabama governor, commuted Johnson’s sentence to life in prison without parole in the 1995 murder of William Hardy, a Jefferson county deputy sheriff. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent, and several former public officials, as well the local district attorney, have argued he should receive a new trial. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
ADL condemns Trump’s antisemitic slur but fails to mention him by name 21. October 2026 (01:06) Anti-Defamation League post decries ‘shylock’ slur but does not explain that president used it at Kansas rally on MondayThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the use of the term “shylock” as antisemitic on Tuesday, without explaining that the slur had been used a day earlier by Donald Trump in a speech in Kansas.Trump used the slur during a Monday night rally in support of Republican senator Roger Marshall, who is locked in a closer-than-expected re-election fight against Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton. Marshall, a doctor, as been criticized for filing lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills, leading to 18 of them being arrested. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
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