now we have two liars abbott and hockey, page-24

"Many commentators suggest the Aussie dollar is tanking due to its highly speculative nature, great when the world is steaming ahead ie little risk but not so great when risk/trouble may lie ahead."

if anyone had watched Sky Business News this afternoon, in one of the interviews, someone from the Australian newspaper (I assume he was from its business finance section, I didn't catch his name), gave a very good explanation of the probable reasons why our market and dollar have been heading south. And, it had nothing to do with Rudd :-)