Simple reason why the Aussie dollar is doing better. Our Govt spent every surplus dollar - and then some - trying to avoid the recession and appears to have done so for now. There WILL be payback for us in the future. So our economy falsely looks better, momentarily and thus so does our dollar.History tell us that when global financial situations go bad, wars start and massive Govt spending then brings the country that spent out of debt eventually. Add to that the fact that most of the employable male population of previous wars were killed, maimed or in some way made unemployable by fighting in the war and leaving jobs galore for the up and coming younger generations. So you then have a lot of businesses looking for employees and willing to pay more for them and to keep them. The idea, this time around seeing there are so many situations in the world that would be easy to point to and start a war, was to spend now, make people feel happier about their Govts and move past the need to kill each other instead. It seems to have worked, thank goodness, giving rise to the idea that humans really CAN learn from their past!Maybe there IS a chance of us getting into space in the next 50 years!