House debates

Monday, 22 February 2016

Questions without Notice

Economy

2:16 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

the rise of Asia and the rapid expansion of the global economy. We recognise that the jobs of the future, the jobs of our children and grandchildren, the high-wage jobs to which they are entitled, will be secured through innovation, through science, through technology and through investment. So every single lever of my government is pulling in the direction of jobs, growth and fairness. Those are the goals.

The first package of policies that we released was therefore the National Innovation and Science Agenda, recognising that that is the key to growth. We provided real incentives to invest, real incentives for people to invest in start-ups and real incentives for universities to better collaborate with industries, because therein lies the key to growth.

What have our friends on the Labor side done in their response? They have sought to put the brakes on growth—

Ms O'Neil interjecting

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