House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration 
      
      Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia annual report 1996-97: Interim 
        report
      The Committee tabled its report 
Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia 
      annual report 1996-97: Interim report on 23 March 1998. Copies of the 
      
full report are available in 
PDF format (121KB) 
      and from the 
Committee Secretariat. 
      
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Table of contents of report
       FOREWORD 
      
 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE 
      
 TERMS OF REFERENCE 
      
 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 
      
 RECOMMENDATIONS 
      
 
        - CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 
        
 Background
- Scope and conduct of the review 
      
 
        - CHAPTER TWO: CONDUCT OF MONETARY POLICY AND SURVEILLANCE OF THE FINANCIAL 
          SYSTEM 
          
 
            
 Conduct of monetary policy
- Asia and the rest of the world 
            - Effects of the Asia crisis on Australia 
            - Level of unemployment: the economic problem that remains 
          
- Gold 
           
            - Surveillance of the financial system 
            
- Wallis inquiry: Implications for the RBA 
            - Payments system 
            - Bank lending and bank margins 
            - Approach to bank supervision 
            - "Year 2000 problem" 
          
 Central bank cooperation  
 
        - APPENDIX 1: LIST OF SUBMISSIONS 
        
 1 Reserve Bank of Australia (Small business lending)
 
        - APPENDIX 2: LIST OF HEARINGS AND WITNESSES ( A copy of the public 
          hearing transcript for the 6 November 1997 is available in PDF 
          format or from the Committee Secretariat) 
        
 Private Briefings
 
        - COMMITTEE'S REVIEWS OF ANNUAL REPORTS 
        
 38th Parliament
- 37th Parliament 
      
 
        - LIST OF TABLES 
        
 Table 2.1: Margin over the Cash Rate
Speeches
      
      Final report
      The final report canvassed issues covered at the public hearing on 7 May 
      1998. The report was tabled in the House of Representatives on 22 June 1998. 
      An 
index to the report is available on this site. 
      Copies of the report are available in 
PDF format 
      or from the 
Committee Secretariat. 
      
      
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