Michael Reddell: One more Treasury OIA about RB spending

All the interest in the Orr-departure story – the background, and the subsequent and ongoing efforts to mislead the public by the Board and the temporary Governor – seems to now centre on the Ombudsman. Various people, including me, have appealed the Bank’s OIA obstructionism on specific requests and the Ombudsman seems to be pursuing the issue reasonably expeditiously.

Michael Reddell: One in five roles could go at the Reserve Bank

That is the headline in a story in The Post this morning. After inquiries from Post journalists a Reserve Bank spokesperson said that final decisions on organisational change, advised to staff last week, would mean a net loss of 142 jobs (35 of which were currently vacant; presumably the Bank has had some sort of hiring freeze in place for some months now).