They won't. Then again, no one is going to argue against the elements that try to add up to a strategy to get the economy on to a sustained high-growth path.
But there is no sense of urgency. Just more advisory committees. The document avoids setting targets. Getting New Zealand back into the top half of OECD performers will be achieved only "over time".
It was left to Finance Minister Michael Cullen to inject a modicum of excitement into yesterday's proceedings by reheating the possibility of preferential tax treatment to attract foreign investors.
Otherwise, we'll have to wait until the Budget to see whether the Government will put some flesh on the framework.
Despite that, Helen Clark's blueprint for growth is an important component in Labour's campaign strategy this year. And it is absolutely pivotal to Labour's hopes of winning a third term in office in 2005.
For the time being, most voters are comfortable with the country's direction while they "sleep off the 1990s" - to borrow a phrase from Mr English.
After a decade and more of economic restructuring, voters are suspicious of politicians who claim to have all the answers. That's one of the reasons why the Prime Minister downplayed yesterday's document as "work in progress".
The document's short-term political purpose is to sideline critics, like Mr English, who argue that the Labour-Alliance coalition is bankrupt of ideas to achieve high growth.
However, midway through the next parliamentary term, voters are unlikely to be so relaxed if economic growth continues to dribble along at current rates.
Export commodity prices may have slipped; exporters may no longer be enjoying a low dollar. Labour will be suffering the wear-and-tear that afflicts any Government after four or five years in power.
Right from the start of her prime ministership, Helen Clark insisted that transforming the economy would require two terms. But such talk follows her maxim that it is better to under-promise and over-deliver.
That caution was echoed yesterday by Dr Cullen, who, when pressed, set the unambitious target of 4 per cent-plus growth by 2007.
For his and Helen Clark's sake, their "new economic agenda" must start bearing fruit well before then.
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The jobs challenge
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