Helen Coonan, senator for New South Wales, speaks to the med

AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 28: Helen Coonan, senator for New South Wales, speaks to the media prior to an address by Glenn Stevens, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, not pictured, at an Australian Senate Economics References Committee hearing in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Australian government stimulus spending will need to be eased and interest rates raised as the nation's economy expands, Stevens said. (Photo by Jack Atley/Bloomberg via Getty Images)