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

We are here, in the Asia-Pacific, in a region of unprecedented growth, where countries that had barely participated in the global economy a generation ago are now playing an enormous part. China, 40 years ago barely part of the global economy, is now the single largest nation economy in the world. And we have, through the efforts of the trade minister, been able to open up further to Australian enterprise and business and imagination and innovation one big market after another—Korea, Japan, China and now the 12 nations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Ours is a government that is widening the horizon for Australian innovation. Above all, what we have is a confident nation. This is a time not for complacency, not for arrogance, but for pride in Australia and confidence in our people. We believe in the capability. We believe in the imagination. We believe in the enterprise of Australians. We do not seek to frighten them out of prosperity as the Labor Party does. And we are seeing confidence is recovering in this country. The National Australia Bank survey: confidence recovered in September. The highest turnaround in sentiment since 2001.

Ms Butler interjecting—

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