Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Macquarie for her question. As members may be aware, today the government outlined our response to the Harper review of competition policy. The government have accepted, wholly or in part, 44 of the 56 recommendations and have rejected none, because we know that, if you want to grow the economy and grow jobs, you need to have greater choice for consumers and you need to deliver better services.

That is why our response to the Harper review, which was released just before question time, comes together with and forms part of the broader platform for growth and jobs in our economy, whether it is by freeing up new markets, whether it is through our $50 billion national infrastructure plan that is being rolled out or whether it is through having a tax system that ensures that we can remove the impediments that have held back Australian businesses and Australians who are out there working and saving and investing every day.

What we have announced today is part of a competition and productivity agenda, because we as a government know that over the next 10 years we will not have the situation that, in particular, those opposite had, where commodity prices and the terms of trade could paper over their inability to deal with productivity challenges, and we know—

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