Speaking to business leaders at a Chamber of Commerce lunch, Senator Le Sueur criticised those taking the short-term view and warned that economic growth would not happen overnight.
And he pointed to recent success in curbing inflation rates as evidence that strengthening the economy was a slow process, but said he was optimistic that the States deficit, or ‘black hole’, caused by the 0/10 tax measures, could be filled.
‘It is going to be a slow, steady process,’ he said.
‘But we will make it.
‘I think in the long term we’ll look back and feel glad that we made these reforms, and wish that we had made them earlier,’ he said.
