RBA - Money supply

Question

1. Please advise a detailed breakdown of the source of all money currently in circulation in Australia. 2. Please provide a table showing the total Australian money supply at the end of each financial year for the past ten years. Please specify which monetary aggregates are being used. 3. For each of the past ten financial years, please provide a breakdown of the specific sources of net money creation in Australia. Please allocate a dollar value to each source of money creation (e.g. RBA, commercial banks etc.) 4. For each of the past ten financial years, please provide a breakdown of net new lending by commercial banks. Please break down by the following categories: (a) owner-occupier housing loans; (b) investor housing loans; (c) business lending; (d) personal lending; (e) any other relevant lending categories. 5.For each of the past ten financial years, please provide: (a) the total value of new loans originated by Australian banks and other lenders (b) the total value of principal repayments received Australian banks and other lenders (c) the resulting net expansion or contraction of credit and money in circulation as a result of lending.

Answer

See attached response.

Documents

• Question with answer (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
• RBA - Senator Babet - Questions in Writing - 4 June 2026.PDF (opens in a new tab)