You go back to 1990 which is when we had those astronomically high nominal interest rates was 4.5 cents in the dollar. So even though we've got a substantially lower rate of interest now, it's almost three times as much coming out of the household budget to cover interest payments, and just since the 2004 election, we've gone from eight cents in the dollar to now about 11.7. So almost 50 per cent higher again than during the 2004 election.
