CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 21 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
Mark Kenny:
Thank you very much Treasurer; it's a wide‑ranging speech and a very interesting subject. It does so closely align, as Rebecca [inaudible] was saying, so closely align with the remit of this lecture series to think about Australia in the longer term and its place in the world.
We're going to go to some questions from our media gathered here. I thought I might just start though with a question that kind of goes to that. You touched on the - how dangerous the world is, how volatile it is, a number of inputs that make predictions highly problematic, that make planning necessarily a dynamic thing.
I wonder, is there a tension inherent in...