The UK's finance chief has backed Australia's call for a boost to global economic growth.
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was responding to his Australian counterpart Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments in the lead-up to this weekend's Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Sydney.
"I'm with Joe," he said in Sydney on Friday, during a forum held at a conservative think-tank.
"I think he's right to tell us all to up our ambition and to make the investments and the infrastructure and to sort out our public finances."
Mr Hockey wants to use the meeting to negotiate a global growth target that is faster than the 3.7 per cent to four per cent forecast by the International Monetary Fund.
Mr Osborne said boosting global gross domestic product (GDP) growth was a "very good purpose".
"GDP is not just a number," Mr Osborne said.
"It's about economic security for hard working Australians and Britons."
Mr Osborne praised Mr Hockey for trying to secure a plan for world economies to lift their respective growth figures.
"Without that (plan) it would just be an aspiration" he said.
"With the plans behind it that the Australians want to secure, we've got a real prospect of achieving it and creating the jobs and the future prosperity we all want to see."
