--- title: Cash rate target changes, Reserve Bank of Australia resource: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/ publisher: Reserve Bank of Australia licence: RBA copyright notice licence_url: https://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/ version: 2026-09-29 rows: 99 fields: 7 source: https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/csv/a2-data.csv source_sha256: cdda36a73186960811ef3bced8a847b4041a908b9f0c77250b9bfe73f5959314 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Cash rate target changes, Reserve Bank of Australia Every change to the RBA cash rate target since 1990, with the new target, the size of the change and the exchange settlement and overnight repo rates that moved with it. Updated after each Monetary Policy Board decision. Published by Reserve Bank of Australia under RBA copyright notice and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Reserve Bank of Australia has not endorsed this site. Also called: RBA cash rate history, Official cash rate Australia, Interest rate decisions RBA, Table A2 Changes in Monetary Policy and Administered Rates, Monetary policy changes. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.csv (3.7 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.xlsx (11 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.json (21 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.parquet (8.5 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.sqlite (37 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.ndjson (19 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.arrow (7.0 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.csv.gz (949 B) Pinned version 2026-09-29: `https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/rba-cash-rate/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/rba-cash-rate/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/rba-cash-rate/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/rba-cash-rate/aggregate?group=cash_rate_target_change&metric=count Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `date` | date | Series ID | The date the change took effect. | | `cash_rate_target_change` | number | ARBAMPCCCR | Change in Cash Rate Target (in percentage points). Units: Per cent. RBA series ARBAMPCCCR, source RBA. | | `cash_rate_target` | number | ARBAMPCNCRT | The Cash Rate Target As Announced. Units: Per cent. RBA series ARBAMPCNCRT, source RBA. | | `es_rate_change` | number | ARBAMPCRPESB | Change in Rate Paid on Exchange Settlement Balances (in percentage points). Units: Per cent. RBA series ARBAMPCRPESB, source RBA. | | `es_rate` | number | ARBAMPNRPESB | The New Rate Paid on Exchange Settlement Balances. Units: Per cent. RBA series ARBAMPNRPESB, source RBA. | | `overnight_repo_rate_change` | number | ARBAMPCORR | Change in Pricing Rate on RBA Overnight Standing Facility Repos (in percentage points). Units: Per cent. RBA series ARBAMPCORR, source RBA. | | `overnight_repo_rate` | number | ARBAMPNORR | The New Pricing Rate on RBA Overnight Standing Facility Repos. Units: Per cent. RBA series ARBAMPNORR, source RBA. | Key: `date`. ## Versions - 2026-09-29: 99 rows, 7 fields, sha256 cdda36a73186. https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Fuel price changes at every service station, Queensland, latest month](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-fuel-prices/) (Qld) - [Daily fuel prices by service station, Northern Territory, 2017 to 2024](https://publicdata.au/d/nt-fuel-prices-history/) (NT) - [Petroleum and gas reserves by field, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-petroleum-gas-reserves/) (Qld) - [Poker machine expenditure by venue, Victoria, 2008-09 to 2021-22](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-gaming-expenditure-by-venue-history/) (Vic) ## Attribution and citation Source: Reserve Bank of Australia, statistical table A2 Changes in Monetary Policy and Administered Rates, sourced 30 September 2026 from https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/, republished under sections 4 and 5 of the RBA copyright notice, https://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/. The RBA does not endorse this site or any use of this data. The RBA publishes this data free of charge at rba.gov.au. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Source: Reserve Bank of Australia, statistical table A2 Changes in Monetary Policy and Administered Rates, sourced 30 September 2026 from https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/, republished under sections 4 and 5 of the RBA copyright notice, https://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/. The RBA does not endorse this site or any use of this data. The RBA publishes this data free of charge at rba.gov.au. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/ Harvard: Reserve Bank of Australia (2026) Cash rate target changes, Reserve Bank of Australia, version 2026-09-29 [data set], RBA copyright notice, sourced 30 September 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/ Markdown: Data: [Cash rate target changes, Reserve Bank of Australia](https://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/), Reserve Bank of Australia, [RBA copyright notice](https://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/), sourced 30 September 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Cash rate target changes as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Cash rate target changes in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 99 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/rba-cash-rate/v/2026-09-29/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Cash rate target changes cover? The current version covers 1990 to 2025. Each release from RBA becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Cash rate target changes updated? RBA releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Cash rate target changes commercially? Yes. RBA copyright notice allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Cash rate target changes? No. The publisher is Reserve Bank of Australia, and its page is https://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### Which decisions are in the table? Every change to the cash rate target since January 1990, one row per change, with the new target and the size of the change. Meetings that left the rate unchanged are not rows, because the RBA table records changes. The row for 1 October 1997 records a cut to the rate paid on exchange settlement balances with the target unchanged. The rate paid on exchange settlement balances and the pricing rate on the overnight standing facility are shown from December 1994, when the RBA began publishing them. ### Why are some cells in 1990 null? In January, February and April 1990 the RBA announced the target as a range rather than a single figure. The publisher writes those cells as text, 17.00 to 17.50, 16.50 to 17.00 and 15.00 to 15.50 for the target and -0.50 to -1.00 and -1.00 to -1.50 for the change, and they are kept as null here because a range is not a number. The source file beside each version has the text. ### When does a change take effect? The date is the day the new target took effect. For recent changes that is the business day after the announcement, so the cut announced on 4 June 2019 is dated 5 June 2019. The daily money market table shows each change on the same date. ### Under what licence is RBA data republished here? The RBA excludes its numerical data from the CC BY 4.0 licence that covers the rest of its site, and instead permits it to be used, reproduced, published and communicated to the public for personal or commercial use under sections 4 and 5 of its copyright notice, with attribution and no claim of endorsement. The RBA does not endorse this site or any use of this data, and it publishes the same figures free of charge at rba.gov.au. Every file here carries that attribution. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/rba-cash-rate.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/rba-cash-rate.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.