CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 21 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subject: Economic Reform Roundtable, tax, productivity, road user charge
Jim Chalmers:
Thanks, everyone. I wanted to start where I finished the meeting a few minutes ago and say this: it's a real privilege to govern or help govern a country like ours at a time of such rapid and consequential change. And at the front of all of our minds around that Cabinet room table, not just over the last 3days, but every day, is really the magnitude of the opportunity that we have to turn our recent momentum in the economy into lasting and enduring progress. The best way to sustain and grow living standards over time is to make our economy more productive, to ma...