Economics

Australian Policy Makers Under Siege as Oil Amplifies Crisis

  • RBA to keep policy unchanged Tuesday after emergency meeting
  • Australia is world’s biggest LNG exporter, worth 2.5% of GDP
Photographer: Patrick Hamilton /Bloomberg
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