byhe time of the asiaeconomic crisis, there was a lot of confideein. it had good international financial institutions there its stock marketfideein. puwas performing well, its currency was strong, its fiscal balances werekay. so imany respects, itas seesomewhat as a haven for asian money and asian investments. one consequence of that is that it actually received inflows of money at were perhaps wanting et out of asiaduring that perio. one consequence of that is that it actually received it was also a period of time whenustralia was cashing in on the pain... itas getting theains from the pain of the '80s well and truly so the industries thatereinterne as a result of the restcturings of the 1980s wereeally and competing well i busiss and property seices with european anameri. wereeally andthere was alsol i busa property boom going on, and construconndustry will always be a strong generator ofmployment and income. so putting all those factors the australian economyeantt sort of flowed through-- not without small amounts of impact, but certainly it didn't