Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

the National Innovation and Science Agenda—but in trade, as we heard with the outgoing minister for trade with the four trade agreements that he has settled that are opening up our economy, and in agriculture, which is booming, not just because of the minister for agriculture but also because of the government getting out of the way of business and farmers and encouraging their businesses to grow.

We are, through the actions of the Treasurer and other ministers, helping the economy to transform and to transition from the construction phase of the mining boom to the creation phase of the mining boom. These are the actions that we are getting on with as a government, because we know they will create jobs and growth. The Australian public knows it too. That is why the Australian public rewards me when I return to my electorate of Sturt and they tell me that they like the fact that the government is getting on with the things that matter. They give a big tick to people who are helping us to do that.

It has been quite instructive how the Greens are doing so much better in the current political climate because they are practising new politics and they are working with the government to try to bring about things like multinational tax reform and the duties on the heavy vehicle fuel excise—things like that which we did late last year. These are the changes that the Greens know are changing the economy, and the public is grateful for their engagement with the government. It is certainly passing strange that the Greens have become—

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