A few hours ago, I addressed the World Economic Forum and shared Australia’s plans to drive economic growth.
Since the election, Australia has been ‘under new management’ and ‘open for business’. We are putting in place policies to strengthen the economy, create more jobs and help Australian families get ahead. We are cutting red and green tape, scrapping the carbon tax and mining tax and getting the Budget under control.
Our plan for a stronger economy recognises that economic growth with more jobs is the result of global conditions as well as domestic policies.
This year, Australia has a unique opportunity to help promote global growth as chair of the G20.
The G20 leaders meeting will take place in Brisbane in November and our agenda will focus on those issues where co-ordinated international action can add value: trade, infrastructure, taxation and banking.
The lesson of recent history is that real progress is always built on clear fundamentals.
You can’t spend what you haven’t got; no country has ever taxed or subsidised its way to prosperity; you don’t address debt and deficit with yet more debt and deficit; and profit is not a dirty word because success in business is something to be proud of.
To read my address to the World Economic Forum click here.
Regards,
Tony Abbott
Prime Minister
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Events
- 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
- 1758 – During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth I of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763)
- 1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
- 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
- 1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
- 1908 – The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
- 1911 – Japanese anarchist Shūsui Kōtoku is hanged for treason in a case now considered a miscarriage of justice.
- 1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
- 1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
- 1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
- 1996 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
Births
- 76 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)
- 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Italian husband of Bona of Savoy (d. 1476)
- 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
- 1732 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
- 1862 – Edith Wharton, American author (d. 1937)
- 1872 – Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
- 1895 – Eugen Roth, German poet and songwriter (d. 1976)
- 1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded Oral Roberts University and Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (d. 2009)
- 1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 – Aaron Neville, American singer (Neville Brothers)
- 1943 – Sharon Tate, American actress (d. 1969)
- 1949 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1961 – Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress
- 1966 – Jimeoin, Irish comedian and actor
- 1984 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
- 2012 – Princess Athena of Denmark
Deaths
- 41 – Caligula, Roman emperor (b. 12)
- 1473 – Conrad Paumann, German organist and composer (b. 1410)
- 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician (b. 1849)
- 1955 – Ira Hayes, American marine, member of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (b. 1923)
- 1955 – Henry Potter, American golfer (b. 1881)
- 1965 – Winston Churchill, English army officer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- 1971 – Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
- 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (b. 1911)
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