‘Muddying the waters’ is a common strategy in politics. It entails finding a key fact or piece of information that can scuttle an attack line or confuse an issue.
This is probably the best framework to assess the December 2024 Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers released by the ABS.
The key figure is the CPI ‘trimmed’ mean, a measure of inflation that excludes volatile items.
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