CANBERRA, ACT, June 18 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: reform roundtable, economic reform, tax reform, economic resilience, budget sustainability, productivity, defence spending
Tom Connell:
Thank you, Treasurer. I'm going to keep this broad, lest I be accused of ruling in, ruling out. So, if you think of how bold you're willing to be. When we think of economic reform, the truly transformative reform is always, at the time at least, somewhat controversial. If you think of floating the dollar and the accord, if you think of the GST. Are you thinking of that level of boldness when you're talking about the reform the economy needs around, whether it be productivity or tax or whatever it might b...