Glenn Stevens: Economic performance and issues in 2002 Speech by Mr Glenn Stevens, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, to the Australian Industry Group "Economy 2002 - Forecasting Industry Prospects", Sydney, 6 March 2002. *  *  *  Thank you to the Australian Industry Group for an invitation to return to your annual conference.
It is a pleasure to be here. Since this is my third appearance here, I thought it might be useful to give a brief history of the past couple of years as a prelude to making some observations about the current state of things, and about some of the issues for the year ahead.