John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The last national accounts demonstrate that in the last two recorded quarters there has been an increase, cumulatively, of two per cent in productivity—1.4 and 0.6. I am not going to annualise those figures. I am not going to say, ‘Well, that means that productivity is going to be four per cent for the financial year,’ but what those figures do indicate—

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