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The Reserve Bank of Australia published the minutes of its July 3rd Monetary Policy Meeting (at which they left the overnight rate unchanged at 3.50% - which was market consensus at the time). After presenting various reasons that the economy is slowing but not catastrophically so, that inflation is contained and will probably continue to be for awhile, the RBA concludes that the previous cuts that have lowered the rate from 4.25 to 3.50 in the space of half a year should be enough to stimulate the economy in the near term.
Given all the uncertainties about China's response to their slowdown, the future path of the European crisis and the recent slowdown in the US, it does make sense to not shoot all of their bullets at once.