That's true spawno. Unfortunately the majority of voters only look at the short term. We're doing OK now, so it must be that the government is doing something right, and if there's a change the bottom could fall out. But the bottom might fall out anyway, regardless of who's in. When Keating said "This is the recession we had to have", he didn't mean that Australian needed a recession. He meant that we were heading for one sooner or later. He didn't bring it on on purpose. It was unavoidable. Why am I bringing this up? I figured I haven't had a decent political rant in, well, a long time.