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RBA recapitalisation would lift public debt

Rising interest rates will result in the RBA making further losses in the years ahead. The Bank’s existing reserves should be enough to absorb those losses in a benign scenario, but the Bank will stop paying a dividend. And in a worst-case scenario, the Treasury may inject capital of as much as 5% of GDP.

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