NBN helps stop ‘export of jobs’: Gillard
Original article By James Riley on iTWire
Australia risked losing jobs to offshore markets if it failed to invest in the National Broadband Network as a critical piece of economic infrastructure, Julia Gillard has told Parliament.
The Prime Minister said the nation had emerged from the global financial crisis with opportunities for new growth and the NBN would play a “pivotal role” as the underlying infrastructure to exploit those opportunities.
In addition to returning the budget to surplus, which Ms Gillard remains committed to doing by 2012/13, she said Government was working to “expand the supply side of the economy.”
Picking up on the reform narrative she has been pressing in the run up to this parliamentary sitting period, Ms Gillard said Government was working on “human capital” initiatives, on tax reform through the promised cut in company tax rates, and on growing the national savings pool through the planned superannuation reforms.
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