House debates Questions without Notice

Economy

Thursday, 13 March 2008 House of Representatives

Darren Cheeseman

Darren Cheeseman Corangamite, Australian Labor Party

3:21 pm

My question is to the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. Has the slump in Australia’s productivity growth over the last several years been caused by a decline in mining industry productivity, as has been claimed, or is it more widespread? What are the consequences of poor productivity growth, particularly for the service economy, and what are the government, as disciplined economic managers, doing to restart productivity growth?

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