Well our constituency Alexandra is all of the Australian people. We re not a business government, we re a government that cares for a good business climate and has pro-business policies but we are answerable to all of the Australian people. And for all the Australian people interest rates going down is not a bad . . . Well unless of course you re an investor and there are some investors who are not all that keen on it. But generally speaking falls in interest rates are welcome.
Most people see that as an inevitability now.
I can t say more than what I ve just said. I m not going to speculate about interest rates and it s a waste of time pursuing that line. Today Kim Beazley releases some more policy pledging to foster greater tertiary education take up as part of his knowledge nation push in a bid to gazump your innovation statement next Monday. No, it s part of a policy of giving more resources to government schools on the condition that those additional resources be channelled into providing more support for science and mathematics. We weren t giving it to the private schools.