Via Treasurer Scott Morrison:
“The national accounts show we are also delivering economic growth. We have climbed back to the top of the leaderboard – we are again leading the advanced economies, bettering the average growth of the OECD and each member of the G7 group of leading industrial nations.”
…Imports of capital goods – machinery and equipment – jumped 12.2 per cent in the quarter and 28 per cent for the year.