CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 22 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
Michelle Grattan:
Jim Chalmers, the Intergenerational Report points to a reform agenda to lift living standards, but the measures are pretty broad. What are you particularly concerned about at the moment in trying to boost living standards?
Jim Chalmers:
Well, the productivity package in the budget is key. The biggest, broadest productivity package in some decades in the May Budget and that's about recognising that the best way to lift living standards over time is to make our economy more productive, more dynamic, more competitive.
So, the productivity package is key, but really right across the Intergenerational Report, if you look at all of these ...