Thankfully, foreigners like our bonds
In life, it's not necessarily what you say, but the way that you say it.
Take, for example, Treasurer Joe Hockey's repeated warnings over projected commonwealth debt.
If the Abbott government does nothing now to fix the budget, debt will balloon to close to $700 billion in 10 years' time, resulting an interest bill of $3 billion a month.
"Seventy per cent of that will be interest payments going to people living overseas, because they are the people that we have had to borrow from to fund the deficits that Labor created," Hockey says.
While true on pre-budget projections, it does conjure up a picture of Treasury officials going around the world with cap in hand, begging for help.
How embarrassing.
The reality is that thankfully foreign investors can't get enough of our debt or government bonds.
Australia is one of the few countries that is rated triple-A by the world's three leading rating agencies, it has an economy that has avoided recession for over two decades, and it has a budget - while far from perfect - that still knocks spots off comparable nations.
It also has relatively high interest rates when compared to the US, Europe and Japan, which are at or close to zero.
But of course, when you are trying to get support to repair the budget, it doesn't have the same bite if you say that, even if we have to raise a lot of debt, "don't worry, we have investors out there that are more than willing to help".
Still, the eagerness of foreigners to invest in Australia does cause a different problem - an uncomfortably high Australian dollar.
Central bank governor Glenn Stevens reiterated in his post-monthly board meeting statement that the exchange rate remains high by historical standards, particularly given the declines in key commodity prices.
"(It) is offering less assistance than it might in achieving balanced growth in the economy," Stevens says.
The dollar touched an eight-month high of 95 US cents earlier this week after its steady recovery from 87 US cents around the start of the year.
The RBA seems reluctant to cut interest rates any further just to try and lower the exchange rates, having held the cash rate steady at an all-time low of 2.5 per cent since August 2013.
If anything, most economists expect the next move will be up - albeit not for a while yet.
Former RBA board member Warwick McKibbin told a conference this week that while a drop in the currency would be good, it is unlikely to happen any time soon.
The Australian National University professor said global investment is still likely to be drawn to Australia because of lower monetary policy adjustments elsewhere around the globe.
"It's the reason why I think the Australian dollar is likely to be getting stronger not weaker," he said.
The impact of a high dollar was noticeable in the latest monthly international trade data, which showed a $1.9 billion deficit in May.
This was the largest shortfall in around 18 months and reflected a five per cent drop in exports, particularly in iron ore and other non-rural commodities.
This followed a revised $780 million deficit in April, but came after three reasonably healthy surpluses in the previous three months.
"These data underscore the failure of the exchange rate to react to movements in spot commodity prices in recent months," RBC Capital Market strategist Michael Turner says.
It also suggests the strong contribution to growth from exports in the first three months of the year - that helped to lift annual gross domestic product to around its long-term trend of 3.2 per cent - may be as good as it gets for now.
And it is why Stevens believes the economy will be growing a little below trend over the year ahead.
"On present indications, the most prudent course is likely to be a period of stability in interest rates," Steven says.
It's about as plain speaking a central bank can be.
