RBA holds interest rates; Anthony Albanese lashes Scott Morrison’s victim mentality over robo-debt; NACC receives 500 referrals in first month

Home buyers, renters and businesses could be spared any further financial pain after the Reserve Bank held interest rates steady for a second month while signalling the economy is on track for a soft landing.

Major banks including Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank revised down their expectations for future rate increases after the RBA kept the official cash rate at 4.1 per cent on Tuesday – the first time since March and April last year it has made no change at consecutive…