Actually it shows how great the Howard Government was a riding the coat-tails of the Resource boom and stifled future development in favour of wasted surplusses. Had the Howard government actually spent some money on infrustructure, research, development and manufacture we may have had something to fall back on now that the buyers of said resources cannot afford to buy anything. Now is the perfect time for Australia to be EXPORTING goods yet we have no goods to export because in the last decade everything has been privatised, closed down and moved off shore to the point that we are actually a nation that well... does nothing. Now, can you please explain to be what the Howard government which would have been so much better as to avoid this ineviatble readjustment in out overinflated dollar and share market?