Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness) Share this | Hansard source

This engagement will mean that we will diversify our economy into services and back into agriculture and into sophisticated manufactured goods as we take advantage of regional supply chains. The Australian economy is the envy of the world. When it comes to the budget position of the Australian economy, we are achieving the most rapid fiscal consolidation in Australia's history. We do not and will not accept the economy or budget policy prescriptions of the Leader of the Opposition. And this could not be more relevant.

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