So your strategy all this time was to look at countries on this list that has negative GDP growth and automatically conclude they need more stimulus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_growth_rate
Even if you claim that Australia had a bigger stimulus in 2010, I'm sure if you compare 2008-2010 stimulus numbers on a % of GDP basis Australia would still lose in that comparison to many industrialized nations especially the US.
Australia
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 0.7% of GDP (2008), 0.8% of GDP (2009)
United States of America
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 1.1% of GDP (2008), 1.9% of GDP (2009)
Canada
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 0% of GDP (2008), 1.5% of GDP (2009)
Japan
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 0.4% of GDP (2008), 1.4% of GDP (2009)
United Kingdom
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 0.2 % of GDP (2008), 1.4% of GDP (2009)
Germany
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 0% of GDP (2008), 1.5% of GDP (2009)
France
Size of stimulus relative to GDP: 0% of GDP (2008), 0.7% of GDP (2009)
In other words, Australia did a "Bush" stimulus.
Glad to see it worked out well for them. Obama should have done the same since you mentioned theirs was "
wildly successful" in Australia.