starving kids? please, Australia is a very lucky country and if we have a small recession we will still be better off than 95% of the world's population. Your rhetoric is a bit rich.
Now Treasury predicts growth 1% for 2009 and 0.75% for 2010, even without the stimulus package you'd knock off 1-2% GDP tops....that makes a 1% contraction. Not pleasant but not the end of the world either.
