# Tense moment One Nation state leader snaps back at reporter when he can’t recall the cash rate on live TV… but shouldn’t he know it?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tense-moment-one-nation-state-leader-snaps-back-at-reporter-when-he-cant-recall-the-cash-rate-on-live-tv-but-shouldnt-he-know-it/
- Published: 2026-11-05T07:50:49+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T08:03:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16267183/interest-rate-mortgage-one-nation-victoria-warren-pickering-cash-rate-sharri.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Business, Economy, Entertainment, TV, World

## Key points

- Pickering could not give the exact cash rate in a live interview.
- The RBA rate had risen to 4.85 per cent.
- He defended One Nation’s campaign focus and uncosted policy platform.

## Summary

One Nation Victoria leader Warren Pickering struggled to name the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate during a live television interview, prompting reporter Sharri Markson to question whether a politician seeking to become premier should know it. Pickering turned back to his campaign focus on the cost of living, saying families were under pressure from grocery, fuel, rent and mortgage costs.

The RBA raised the cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.85 per cent on Tuesday, its highest level in almost 18 years; Pickering guessed 5 per cent. He said he was campaigning for about 18 hours a day and focused on Victorian families, and defended One Nation’s decision not to publish detailed policy costings. The party’s stated proposals include payroll and land tax changes, scrapping insurance duty, reversing the new-home gas connection ban and abandoning the state’s net-zero targets; the article text cuts off during a further pledge.

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