Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

that we remain a prosperous First World, high-wage economy with a generous social welfare net. Strong economic growth is absolutely essential to that. As honourable members know, in recent times, our economic growth has been in large part driven by the mining boom, the mining construction boom in particular. We have seen, as was inevitably going to be the case, a decline in commodity prices—

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