Feature: Australia predicted to use fiscal firepower

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Feature: Australia predicted to use fiscal firepower

Two of the country's most respected economists, Saul Eslake and Alan Oster, tell Leigh Powell why Australia has a better-than-average chance of avoiding recession in 2009, provided that global conditions don't deteriorate any further.

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