With the risks to the Australian economy from abroad abating further over recent months, and with signs that domestic growth was running faster than expected, the Board's deliberations turned to the question of how much longer such
an expansionary stance of policy should be maintained.
Not exact matches
Thus the shock hit the Australian economy at a time when it was in reasonable shape with the
stance of monetary
policy already relatively
expansionary.
In the current context, the expectation
of a temporary period
of lower growth and inflation may well point to a case for monetary
policy to be on the
expansionary side
of neutral, as it already is, but it is not
of itself a case for moving to a more
expansionary stance than is currently in place.
As has been clear in previous Statements, the Bank has judged the
stance of monetary
policy over the past several years to be
expansionary when compared with relevant historical benchmarks.