CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 21 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:

Welcome to day 3. By my count we're into the 20th hour of the Economic Reform Roundtable. I wanted to begin today, the way I began yesterday and really say thank you again for the way that we collectively approached some really difficult issues yesterday.

And especially pleasing to see the really genuine exchanges around some of the more difficult issues, including artificial intelligence yesterday. And the reason I raised that is because if you think about that AI conversation yesterday, the way that sharing our understandings of that AI opportunity got us a bit closer to something that looks like a consensus on aspects of making that AI opportunity wor...