Because of last month’s election, there has not been time to re-form the Committee and schedule a hearing date in the current half-year. I will start tonight by showing a graph which compares Australia’s current economic expansion with its predecessors in the 1970s and 1980s.
I am pointing out these facts because the NBS is of the opinion that the development of small and medium size enterprises is not achievable by either political declarations or strong or weak political stance or by “giving a cut” of state funds through budgetary support under any name.