CANBERRA, ACT, Sept. 2 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
Jim Chalmers:
I've put out a detailed statement on today's National Accounts but let me just touch on a few elements and take your questions. As you know, growth is 0.4 in the quarter, 2.1 through the year with the revisions, and 2.4 annual. This is a robust result in really challenging international circumstances. The Australian economy is robust, it is resilient in the face of global uncertainty and conflict, and that's the main takeout from these National Accounts.
People are still under pressure, but we can see in these National Accounts that incomes are growing, housing investment picked up, there's a solid pipeline of business investment and the p...