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

The Turnbull government's efforts to make our tax system more growth friendly are of course only one component of an overall national economic plan. It also includes our commitment to support innovation and start-up businesses. It includes our very comprehensive Defence industry plan, which supports local high-end manufacturing, and which is competently led and implemented by my very good friend and colleague Senator Payne and her colleague, and our colleague, Minister Pyne.

We are continuing to roll out export trade deals with key countries around the world in order to help facilitate—in order to help Australian exporting businesses sell more Australian products and services into key markets around the world, helping to generate more jobs and, of course, drive stronger growth. Our record investment in productivity-enhancing infrastructure—all of these—our deregulation focus and, of course, Senator Sinodinos led the charge in relation to that— (Time expired)