Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Is the minister aware of this morning’s speech by Reserve Bank Assistant Governor Malcolm Edey, in which he projects GDP growth to December 2008 of 3¼ per cent but, excluding both the farming and mining sectors, of only 2½ per cent, compared to 4¼ per cent in December 2007? What is the government’s plan to ensure that its claimed inflation-fighting proposed budget cuts will not further reduce growth and jobs in those sectors of the economy outside mining?

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