Achievements of Turnbull Government of Australia

This paper critically analyzes and examines three main achievements of Turnbull government of Australia since 2015. The achievements include remarkable record in employment provision growth, cutting tax for small and medium enterprises and innovation and science agenda.

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Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze and examine three main achievements of
Turnbull government of Australia. Citizens of any government elect a government with high
hopes that the government will deliver the majority of ideas in campaign manifesto. This is the
main reason why citizens come out in large numbers to vote in a government. The Turnbull
Government is a federal executive government of Australia (Arnold, 2010). This government is
headed by the 29th Prime minister of Australia called Malcolm Turnbull. This government is
formed by other stakeholders of the liberal-national coalition. The government of Turnbull was
initiated on 15th September 2015 when Malcolm Turnbull, Australian prime minister was sworn
in by the Governor-General of Australia. This government was formed after the Abbott
Government terminated the leadership tenure. The coming into power of Malcolm Turnbull was
not a simple task since there was a lot of competition by the incumbent liberal leader, Tony
Abbott. After Malcolm Turnbull ascended to office in 2015, he appointed a team of leaders who
would assist him in implementing the ideas in their manifesto (Arnold, 2010). Some of the
members appointed include Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop who have been serving as a
treasurer and as a minister of foreign affairs respectively.
Achievements of Turnbull Government
Since the formation of Malcolm Turnbull Government of Australia on 15th September
2015, Malcolm Turnbull has been appointing a team of leaders from all corners of Australia to
provide their ideologies towards implementation of development goals, economic growth, and
development of infrastructure along with other aspects laid down in their campaign manifesto. In
that connection, his government has achieved so many goals, objectives and targets for the last
three years he has been into Australian federal government (Dann & Dann, 2004). The main
three achievements of his government since 2015 to date are a remarkable and robust record in
employment provision growth, cutting tax for small and medium enterprises and innovation and
science agenda. In this paper, we will consider these achievements in details to demonstrate the
work done by Malcolm Turnbull government of Australia as well as to express how these
achievement interconnects and integrate with others minor achievements.

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Strong and Remarkable Record in Employment Provision Growth
This is one of the major achievements attained by Malcolm Turnbull government of Australia
since it was initiated in 2015. The problem of unemployment is one of the major concern that
affects developed and developing countries all over the globe. The rate of unemployment in
Australia has been one of the major drawbacks that limit the nation to achieve goals, targets, and
objectives and personal level as well as at national level. In that connection, Malcolm Turnbull
made sure that creation of employment to Australia community to be one of the significant
aspects to be addressed by his government. Despite high population growth rate in Australia, his
government has managed to create more than 403,000 employment opportunities in 2018.
The rate of employment creation in Australia is estimated to be 1,000 new jobs per day
since Malcolm Turnbull government of Australia was established in 2015. This is a significant
rate of jobs creation that the world record has recognized as the highest rate in the record by
2018. The figure of 403,100 new jobs in Australia is an updated record released as at January
2018. The Turnbull Government rate of job creation has an upward trend since the number of
jobs created in 2015 is estimated to be 301,000 jobs. This information was revealed by
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a local radio station called Radio 3AW in
January.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Labour Force, the survey conducted
between 2015 and 2016 indicated that Turnbull Government managed to create more than
312,100 new jobs in 2016 as compared to 301,000 new jobs in 2015 (Dann & Dann, 2007). This
demonstrates a forward trend in reducing the rate of unemployment in Australia through
remarkable efforts of Turnbull Government (Eric, 2012). The rate of job creation is directly
proportional to the effort initiated by Turnbull Government since the Australian employment to
population ratio has been trending forward since 2015 which is a clear indicator that his
government is in the process of creating more jobs. In that connection, his government has
ensured that the population ratio is directly proportional to participation rate which has been
recorded as an upward trend since 2015.

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Turnbull Government is led by a team of highly skilled ministers who have played
different roles to initiate programs in formal and informal sectors thereby creating many
employment opportunities. In an interview with Radio 3AW, Turnbull used the word “we” do
demonstrate how his government is fully armed to generate more job opportunities (Hausman,
2007). He was giving credit to his ministers for their continuous support in different programs
initiated by his government. Turnbull declared that the reason behind high job creation in
Australia is as a result of the implementation of policies by his ministers and other government
officials which he asserted that jobs and growth are a reality as employment surges. Again, he
claimed that credit for another surge in the population of Australians searching for jobs is
attributed to increases in labour markets that managed to reorganize job markets in 2017. In
January 2017, 383,300 new jobs were created by his government (Henry, 2008). In that
connection, his government has ensured the creation of at least 1,000 jobs per day. Therefore, by
the end of November 2017, 61,600 new jobs were created.
The high rate of job creation in Australia is associated with a diversity of different job
opportunities. The government has initiated policies that are driven towards job creation. Some
of the policies include the provision of incentives, good working conditions, empowerment of
formal and informal sectors thereby cutting across the whole population in Australia. Turnbull
Government has to fulfill the campaign slogan of job creation. In an interview in Sydney
Australia, Turnbull said these words regarding jobs and growth. “At the last election, you will all
remember, we campaigned on jobs and growth.” (Hunt, 2013). Later after he took office, he said
these words to ascertain his campaign slogan. “Well, it was a slogan then, but it is an outcome
now. Our policies are restoring confidence to business and business is responding by investing,
creating more jobs and hiring more workers.” In summary, job creation has remained one of the
major achievements of Turnbull Government.
Cutting Tax for Small and Medium Enterprises
The process of taxation is another area that citizens of a given country express concerns
due to limiting factors that may affect personal economic growth. However, Turnbull
Government is delivering quality services to its citizen as set in their plan for economic growth
and development thereby creating a more secure Australia with the stronger economy (Kotler,
2011). To achieve these plans, Turnbull Government has reduced taxes imposed on small and

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medium enterprises to empower them in upward economic growth and business prosperity. For
many years, small and medium enterprises have faced unfavorable competition from large
enterprises. Many small and medium sectors have collapsed in Australia especially in major
cities such as Sydney and Melbourne due to hostile competition y large-scale business and harsh
taxation system.
However, after Turnbull Government took office in 2015, there have been a lot of
positive changes in a taxation system that is fully geared towards empowering small and medium
enterprises. His government is providing an incentive to these enterprises as well as removal of
restrictive trading barriers for small and medium enterprises. By cutting taxes for small and
medium enterprises, Turnbull Government enabled more than 3.2 million businesses thereby
employing more than 6.7 million Australian (Karskens, 2011). Turnbull and his team of
ministers have initiated this program thereby achieving two economic goals at once. That is,
cutting of taxes for small and medium enterprises has enabled his government to create more
jobs by default.
According to Treasurer Scott Morrison, the Australian government would decline in
global competitiveness if the 2016-2017 federal budget incorporates tax rate cut for companies.
In that connection, companies are large enterprises whole net worth cannot be the compared to
small and medium enterprises. Corporation tax for large companies should the not be reduced,
but it is essential to reduce taxes for small and medium enterprises. Through this idea, Turnbull
Government has retained the corporation tax for large businesses but have reduced taxes for the
small and medium enterprise to empower them economically (Krugman et al., 2012). Treasurer
Scott Morrison said in an interview with local economists, “Boost new investment, create and
support jobs and increase real wages, starting with tax cuts for small and medium-sized
enterprises that will permanently increase the size of the economy by just over 1% in the long
run.” In that case, the Turnbull Government has managed to achieve this plan.
Innovation and Science Agenda
The world is becoming a modern platform where innovation and science are part of
development policies. In this agenda, Turnbull government is fully equipped in implementing
policies that support innovation and science. Since 2015, Australia has achieved several plans in

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innovation and science. The government has managed to establish over 3,000 new investments
through innovation and science agenda (Richard, 2013). This progress has resulted to the
creation of over 300 every stage innovation companies that have created many job opportunities
to Australians. According to the National Innovation and Science Agenda of Australia,
technological advancements have transformed many lives of Australian in many ways such as
communication and access for services. The Turnbull Government has used this platform to
bring changes that are critical to the Australian population. This has enabled the government to
deliver new sources of growth as well as to maintain high paying jobs to the workers (Ryan &
Deci, 2017). This has brought great contributions to economic prosperity. The Turnbull
Government has incorporated innovation technology to every sector of the economy. Some of
the sectors empowered by this innovation include ICT, education, transport, defense, agriculture
and healthcare (Turnbull, 2013). All these sectors have been empowered through technological
innovation thereby providing quality of products and services in Australia. This agenda has
created many employment opportunities in the formal and informal sectors. Again, his
government provided subsidies to innovative investors so as to encourage them to come up with
ideas that would enable Australia to achieve a high competitive advantage in international level.
The Turnbull government managed to set innovation, science and research facilities in every
major city such as Sydney and Melbourne (Turnbull, 2014). Again, this program has been used
by his government to train many entrepreneurs who are in a position to work for a variety of
services and products to bring advantages to the Australian community. Some of the empowered
stakeholders in innovation and science include farmers in Australia who are currently using
sensor technology to increase production as well as bringing innovative products into the market.
Again, through this achievement, Turnbull Government has ensure that Australia remain
competitive in international level so as to keep the country at cutting edge. This process has
created more jobs opportunities to a significant portion of the Australian population. It has also
contributed in upgrading the living standards of the Australian population. The main factors
behind the success of the National Innovation and Science Agenda of Australia are based on a
program initiated by Turnbull Government in 2017 (Crabb, 2016). These factors focus on four
main pillars. That is, talent and skills, collaboration, culture and capital along with government
as an exemplar. Turnbull Government has applied these pillar to provide a clear framework for
Australian innovation policy. Since 2015, the value of innovation and science technology has

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attained a net worth of $1.1 billion. Up to date, the Turnbull Government has driven major ideas
that have created global success, local jobs and business growth.
Conclusion
In summary, the Turnbull Government has attained many achievements since 2015. In
that connection, the country has managed to achieve many positive changes in development
agendas and in empowering the population. The three significant accomplishment of his
government has been achieved through collaborative measures between Turnbull and his team of
ministers (Manning, 2015). They have all worked towards attaining these interrelated
achievements thereby creating a good network that has enabled his government to continue
fulfilling policies, agendas, slogans and manifesto to the Australian population.

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