1  BIS Review 46/2000  For me, however, the interesting thing about this table is that this is the first decade in my working life where Australia has figured in the top half of the table, let alone being virtually in the top position. We must have been doing something right.
One of the things that we are doing right is that we have kept the 1990s expansion going longer than the expansions of the 1970s or the 1980s (Graph 1). The 1980s expansion was quite a strong one but it turned down midway through its seventh year. The 1970s expansion was a much weaker one even though it lasted a bit longer.