Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we are focusing on making sure that our tax system helps to support stronger growth, helps to support stronger employment growth and helps to ensure that people across Australia have the best possible opportunity to get ahead. Over the last two years we have pursued a whole series of very important reforms and started the important job of budget repair coming into government. Moving forward, one of the major priorities for this government is to put an innovation package together, with innovation being the absolute centrepiece of our future economic success, and there will be an announcement in the not-too-distant future in relation to this. Later this week the Prime Minister and I will be travelling to Europe, where we will be seeking to build further on our ambitious free trade agenda, talking to the European Union about opportunities to negotiate a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union—something the Labor Party would surely support. (Time expired)