Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Prime Minister. Is it the case that, according to the most recent figures in the OECD’s productivity database, Australia’s annual average growth rate for productivity since 2002 has been ranked 24th in the OECD and lower than that in countries like the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, the UK, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, the USA and Iceland? Prime Minister, is this performance good enough to set up Australian families for a prosperous future once the mining boom is over, or is the Prime Minister simply happy to continue to boast that Australian families have never been better off?

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