% per annum - Source frequency: monthly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's rba cash rate was 4.3% as of August 2026. The Reserve Bank’s target for the overnight cash rate — the interest rate that anchors mortgage and business lending — shown as the monthly average. The cash rate is the RBA’s main lever for managing inflation and demand. Every change flows through to mortgage repayments and the cost of borrowing. Data is sourced from RBA Table F1.1 (FIRMMCRT) and updated monthly.
The Reserve Bank’s target for the overnight cash rate — the interest rate that anchors mortgage and business lending — shown as the monthly average.
The cash rate is the RBA’s main lever for managing inflation and demand. Every change flows through to mortgage repayments and the cost of borrowing.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (RBA Table F1.1 (FIRMMCRT)), updated monthly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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