George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

It has been said against me, on occasions, that I am a terrible judge of character! Senator Farrell, if those are these statistics, so be it. But the reality is that the Australian economy has grown for more than a quarter of a century because governments have not shirked the reform task. Some of them have, but most of them have not. This government does not shirk the reform task. That is why, if we are to going to continue to grow and if we are to improve the annualised figures, then what we need is to continue the reforms, in particular, as embodied in the enterprise tax plan, which will free up— (Time expired)