SYDNEY: Australian consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in the three months to March, data showed on Wednesday, with the annual headline inflation rate softening to give the central bank room to cut interest rates.

The slight rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the first-quarter of 2015 took the annual rate of inflation to 1.3 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics—in line with analysts’ expectations.

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