Liam Dann: Is central bank independence under attack? 1 May, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Is the evil empire taking control of the Reserve Bank? Photo / Supplied OPINION: Everyone liked Star Wars when Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader used the Force to do somersaults and twirl their lightsabers. People were less fond of later movies where Liam Neeson's impossibly named character delivered lengthy biology lectures about how the Force was made of midichlorians. So it is with columns about central banking. People like to debate house prices or food prices or what's going to happen to with interest rates. And there's nothing boring about a bank collapsing.