Same - locked in last month on some loans, some left floating.
Somehow I do not see an interest rate rise having any effect on these issues, as the lever is there to quell demand - the problem with the things that pushed up the CPI was a problem of supply (and in the case of oil, profiteering, gouging and speculation). It is a pity the RBA only have one blunt tool in the tool box.
The fiscal policy meanwhile (government) of giving tax cuts and baby bonuses would have nothing to to with discretionary spending would it? Cant blame L-A-B-O-R(no U political pundits) for that one can we.
Get Real - the Howard regime inherited the economic strucutre from Keating to set them up to cruise through the next 10 years - and that is what they have done - cruised. No new ideas, just sell off the farm bit by bit.
Not my thread, but what does it have to do with Aviation anyway?