Why not Labour?

I don't profess to be an expert but surely this is the question the rest of the world will ask Australia if the Liberal Party wins the election.
"Why did you get rid of a government that steered your country from recession - you were spared the suffering of so many other less fortunate countries?"
I know there is a debt to repay - but we have jobs to do it and I for one would have lost mine. Surely that outcome was better than the government busting the bank with centrelink unemployment handouts.
We'll pay it back - now, more than ever we should realise "we are the lucky country".

C McGath 20/8/2010