No doubt home loan borrowers breathed a sigh of relief when the Reserve Bank of Australia left cash rates on hold on Tuesday. Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox. Whether it holds that line in a crashing housing market remains to be seen. And Tomohiko Taniguchi, an adviser to former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe, said Mr Albanese’s comments were “unsophisticated” and risked offending the Japanese people. The Labor hypocrisy about Mr Albanese’s demeaning comments about women on the podcast is breathtaking in its shamelessness.