The other part of the current account is the net income balance. The net income balance is the difference between how much it costs to service the country's foreign liabilities (for example, interest payments on foreign debt) and the earnings on Australia's foreign assets (for example, dividend payments to residents from foreign share holdings).
The income balance has widened a little in https://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2019/sp-dg-2019-08-27.html  3/12  8/28/2019  A Balance of Payments | Speeches | RBA  recent years, but is around the middle of the range it has been in since the late 1980s at 3.4 per cent of GDP. I will come back to this later.