CANBERRA, ACT, Oct. 28 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following media release:
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that inflation ticked up in September.
We've seen higher oil prices driving higher inflation around the world and today's figures confirm we are not immune from that.
From an economic point of view, the conflict can't end soon enough.
The numbers in today's data are still too high.
Headline inflation rose 4.3percent in the year to the month of September, compared to 4.0percent in August.
Trimmed mean inflation was 3.6percent in the year to September. It was 3.5percent in the year to August, which was revised down slightly.
In the quarterly data, headline inflation was unchanged at 3.9perce...