Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

There was not enough time in the answer to the first question to go through all of the progress that we are making and all of the initiatives that the Turnbull government are pursing to strengthen growth and to create more jobs. I was talking about the outstanding work done by my good friend and colleague the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne, who delivered, with the Prime Minister, last week a historic and fully funded defence white paper, which of course will not only lead to increase the national security for Australia—which is obviously critically important—but also help drive very significant investment and innovation across the defence industries in Australia.

We are continuing to implement the Prime Minister's innovation agenda. We are continuing to pursue free trade opportunities. After the great work of the best trade minister in the history of the Commonwealth in Andrew Robb, we now have Minister Ciobo trying to finalise the deal with India and pursuing opportunities in Europe and other parts of the world. (Time expired)