I agree, it wasn't targetted well but it was no different to the...

I agree, it wasn't targetted well but it was no different to the US cash payouts. US citizens living in Oz received them. If you were US citizens living in Hong Kong, you would have also received it. It was part of the liquidity zeitgeist at that time. It was the Chinese stimulus which probably bailed us out to a greater degree. Governments everywhere were trying to put liquidity into the system. The IMF gave Rudd's cash injection the tick of approval.