If this were to become our normal mindset, then we would be well on the way to finding ourselves in the very world that we feared. So this evening, I would like to turn my eyes to the future and talk a little about how the economy might look someway down the track. My central thesis tonight is twofold.
First, the Australian economy does have the foundations for a successful and prosperous future. And second, how well we take advantage of those foundations depends increasingly on investment not in physical capital, but in human capital. An aspiration So looking forward, what type of economy should we be aspiring to? One could answer this in many different ways.