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This is a line chart  that shows the realised funding cost profile (expressed in percentage terms) of the net AGS debt portfolio and the Long term Debt Portfolio by financial year since 2007-08. These are compared with two generic  interest rate measures for reference, that is, the overnight cash rate and a moving average of the 10 year government bond yield.  Lower interest rates in the period since the GFC have been driving down debt funding costs. The chart shows that funding costs have fallen faster tha