Geez, some of the arguments here are akin to Geoff Dixon blaming the 1hr late departure of a flight today on Alan Joyce's decision to scrap the segmentation of engineering.
There was no global economic crisis when Howard was here. There is now. It is very easy to blame the current government for a whole host of things. How can we know for certain that things would be better under a Liberal government?
In my opinon, the Liberals threw the last election because they knew what was around the corner. Easier to govern when times are good than when they are tough.
How did Keating put it? Costello spent 10 years in the hammock. That's not an insult, it's merely the situation he found himself in at the time.