The stance of monetary policy is expressed in terms of a target for the cash rate and is announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Periodicity Daily Timeliness Daily, within 60 minutes of the close of business each day. Access by the Public Advance dissemination of release calendar Not applicable, data are released daily. Although there is no law which requires the RBA to compile and publish data on interest rates, the data are disseminated by the RBA as a service to the public.
Individual responses remain confidential.
There is no internal government access to the data prior to their release. There is no ministerial commentary. The data are final and are not subject to revision. Changes were made to the methodology for yields on Treasury bonds and Treasury notes in August 1992, November 1994 and July 2000, respectively. The Interbank Overnight Cash rate has been published daily since July 1998.