Australia news live updates: Katy Gallagher suggests RBA interest rate pause based on ‘uncertainty’ around economic outlook
by Emily Wind (now) and Rafqa Touma (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6CPBV)
Central bank leaves official cash rate unchanged at 4.1%. Follow live
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Foreign minister Penny Wong says the focus of Indonesia's president Joko Widodo's visit to Australia will be on strengthening economic ties between the two countries, on ABC RN this morning.
One of the things we're focused on is how do we improve our economic ties. Obviously, the nation is an increasing economic power and will be over the next decade. We want to make sure we're partners in that. So there will be a great focus on the economy and the economic relationship.
You'll see some big changes to make sure we make business travel easier.
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