I wasn't trying to say the situations are similar. What I was suggesting is that the two examples give fascinating case studies into how differing approaches ca

I wasn't trying to say the situations are similar. What I was suggesting is that the two examples give fascinating case studies into how differing approaches cause braoder social and financial effects. Both men strike me as realtively knowledgeable in financial matters and both come from the left side of politics in constrast to the usual 'economically strong' parties, so I'd be interested in listening to them discuss these topics. I've no doubt that the Greek government was trammeled in ways that the AU government was not. We were in a comparitively very healthy position with a significants surplus to draw upon and an ongoing (at the time) resources export boom, among other things.