Summary: Annual Inflation rate accelerates to 7.3% in September quarter, above expectations; RBA preferred measure rises from 4.9% to 6.1%; housing, food costs again main drivers of result. In the early 1990s, high rates of inflation in Australia were reined in by the “recession we had to have” as it became known. Since then, underlying consumer price inflation has averaged around 2.5%, in line with the midpoint of the RBA’s...