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Petrol is holding up inflation – the 7 graphs that show what's happening to prices and what it will mean for interest rates

  • Written by John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
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Today’s figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show inflation fell in the September quarter for the third consecutive quarter.

But petrol prices kept it uncomfortably high.

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