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2019: A year of fight against Australia's slowing economy

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe Source: AAP

Australia's economy continued its 29-year run of uninterrupted economic expansion in 2019 but that growth has slowed to a decade-long low.


Fears of a global slowdown spurred by the US-China trade war, along with more cautious consumers, have made the economy sluggish - so what's being done about it?


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