Well I never really think of whether it s wasted or not. It s part of the democratic process. A prime minister or politician who expresses frustration with democracy is no longer fit to hold the job. I am never frustrated about being accountable to the Australian people. We ll go on making decisions.
Tax reform is a very good example.
Next Monday I will announce a major series of measures, giving more financial support to science and research and innovation. We ll actually be doing something about this vague, ephemeral thing called knowledge nation . We ll actually be putting policies down. We won t be talking in concepts as our opponents have done for five years. We ve actually done a lot of things over the last five years and we ll go on doing things in 2001 even though there is an election coming.