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The Australia-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New South Wales

For the establishment of strong and lasting economic linkages
between non-government organisations in Australia and China

 

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This page was last updated on 29 July:

 

Announcements

 

Daily Telegraph, London, “The World is Unequivocally Getting Hotter, Says Study”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/world-is-unequivocally-getting-hotter-says-study-20100729-10weq.html.  The article refers to: Louise Gray, “Met Office Report: Global Warming Evidence is ‘Unmistakable’”, The Daily Telegraph, 28 July 2010. Available at:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7914611/Met-Office-report-global-warming-evidence-is-unmistakable.html.

 

Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW report on: Future Chinese Leaders Hold Talks with the Commission, 25 June 2010 is available at: http://www.crc.nsw.gov.au/home. (Scroll part-way down that page).

 

Niall Ferguson, “Decline and Fall of the US”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/decline-and-fall-of-the-us-20100728-10w1x.html

 

Michael C H Jones comment on invitation from Lowy Institute.  Available at: http://www.accci.com.au/Comment_on_invitation.pdf.

 

John Garnaut, “Now China Is Set to go Ahead with Its Own Resources Tax”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/now-china-is-set-to-go-ahead-with-its-own-resources-tax-20100708-102dx.html.

 

AAP. “Carbon Price, Not Targets, Best to Tackle Climate Change, Lowy Institute Report Says”, The Australian, 7 July 2010.  Available at:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/carbon-price-not-targets-best-to-tackle-climate-change-lowy-institute-report-says/story-e6frgczf-1225888837438

 

John Garnaut, “China to Cut Energy Use and Emissions”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June, 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/china-to-cut-energy-use-and-emissions-20100617-yjuv.html.

 

China’s President Hu Jintao announced yesterday (24 May) at the opening session of the second round of China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue in Beijing (with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) that China would press ahead with currency reforms with a “high possibility” that the yuan will rise against the US dollar during the third quarter.  More information is available at:  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010sinousdialogue/2010-05/25/content_9887381.htm.

 

Matthew Moore, “Premier Tells Ministers to Obey New FOI Act”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/premier-tells-ministers-to-obey-new-foi-act-20100523-w42z.html.

 

Australian National University’s China Update 2010 will be convened on Wednesday 14 July from 8.45 to 5.30 at the Coombs Lecture Theatre, ANU.  Registration details are available at:  http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/chinaupdate/.

 

Brad Norington, “Barack Obama Brings Wall Street Into Line With New Law”, The Australian, 22 May 2010.  Available at:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obama-brings-wall-street-into-line-with-new-law/story-e6frg6so-1225869789769.  Analysis of the legislation is also available from the New York Times, dated 23 May 2010 at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/business/24reform.html.  A copy of the US Senate Report entitled “The Restoring American Financial Stability Act 2010” is available online in PDF at: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_reports&docid=f:sr176.111.pdf.

 

Politics of the Henry Tax Review and the superannuation question:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/the-great-henry-tax-dilemma/story-e6frg6zo-1225842674578
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/opinion/retirees-elect-a-government-for-a-bigger-house/story-e6frgd0x-1225842748459.

 

The final report of the Australia's Future Tax System Review (also known as the Henry Tax Review) can be obtained online at: http://www.taxreview.treasury.gov.au/Content/Content.aspx?doc=html/home.htm.

 

A document related to the above is “The Resource Super Profits Tax: A Fair Return to the Nation” and is available online at: www.futuretax.gov.au/documents/.../Announcement_document.pdf.  Other documents and fact sheets related to the RSPT may be obtained from: http://www.futuretax.gov.au/pages/ASmoothTransitionToTheResourceSuperProfitsTax.aspx.

 

A copy of the Asprey Review, which is the tax review that preceded the current tax review, is available at http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/p00087.

 

Tim Colebatch, “Australia 8th-Richest: IMF”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 April 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/australia-8thrichest-imf-20100422-tfvk.html.  Click here to construct the relevant database from the International Monetary Fund’s 2009-2015 projections.  The full text of the IMF World Economic Outlook 2010 can be obtained at: 

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/index.htm.

 

Text of paper by Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, presented a the launch of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Report: Our Western Front: Australia and the India Ocean”, 31 March 2010.  Available at:
http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2010/100331_our_western_front.html.  A copy of the ASPI’s report is available at:

http://www.aspi.org.au/publications/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=248&pubtype=5.

 

A 3-minute video on “Protection of Foreign Investment” is available from Clayton Utz at: http://www.claytonutz.com/publications/videos/protection_of_foreign_investment.page.

 

Stephanie Pleating, “Foreign Lawyers Will Have Their Day in Our Courts”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April, 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/foreign-lawyers-will-have-their-day-in-our-courts-20100410-rzsi.html.

 

State of Australian Cities 2010 Report is available at: http://www.infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/files.MCU_SOAC.pdf.

China to start futures trading:  http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/china-to-start-stock-futures-trading-april-16-20100327-r3kk.html.

 

Alexandra Frean, “Mexican Telecoms Magnate Carlos Slim Helu Tops Bill Gates as the World’s Richest Man”, 11 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/mexican-telecoms-magnate-carlos-slim-helu-tops-bill-gates-as-worlds-richest-man/story-e6frg90o-1225839433495.

 

Nicky Phillips and Andrew West, “China to Build High-Speed Rail Link to Europe”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/china-to-build-highspeed-rail-link-to-europe-20100309-pvuf.html.

 

World Report 2009, issued by Human Rights Watch, is available at: http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2009.

 

The 9th China International Equipment Manufacturing Exposition will be held from 1-5 September 2010 in Shanyang (Liaoning Province).  More information is available at: http://www.accci.com.au/CIEM1.pdf and an invitation to participate in the exposition is available at: http://www.accci.com.au/CIEM2.pdf.

 

News of China’s surging motor car market is given by Leo Lewis, “US in the Dust as China Becomes World’s Biggest Vehicles Market” The Times 12 January 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/executive-lifestyle/us-in-the-dust-as-china-becomes-worlds-biggest-vehicles-market/story-e6frg9zx-1225818371230.  See also: http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/chinas-geely-from-fridge-parts-to-car-giant-20100329-r5i8.html.

 

China became the world’s top exporting nation in 2009.  Details at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/china-cements-export-lead-with-december-surge-20100111-m0y0.html.

 

Peoples Diplomacy through Australasia-China Key Cities

 

AFP, “500 Million Using Facebook: Zuckerbert”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/500-million-using-facebook-zuckerberg-20100722-10lgs.html

 

Dahlia Lithwick, “Nowhere To Hide: Ignoring Maher Arar Won’t Make His Torture Claims Go Away”, Slate, 16 June 2010.  Available at:

http://www.slate.com/id/2257211/pagenum/all/#p2.  See also the editorial in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/opinion/16wed2.html and commentary by Michael C H Jones http://www.accci.com.au/ArarComment.pdf.

 

Huw Slater, “Why China Could Be Leading the World on Climate Change”, East Asia Forum, 29th May 2010.  Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/05/29/why-china-could-be-leading-the-world-on-climate-change/

 

The May newsletter of the Australian International Trade Association and Associates is available at: http://www.accci.com.au/AITA.doc.

 

On the Shanghai Expo from The Sydney Morning Herald Traveller: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/youve-come-a-long-way-baby-shanghai-finds-its-big-feat-20100430-tzbt.html.  From The Australian: “Culture Comes Down to a Cartoon”, 24 May 2010, at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/culture-comes-down-to-a-cartoon/story-e6frg8n6-1225870253759.

 

“Building Bilateral Trade Between Australia and China, by Chiang Lim, Deputy Mayor of Parramatta, undated, at: http://www.chianglim.com.au/blog/blog/building_bilateral_trade_between_australia_and_china/menu_id_106.html 

 

A copy of the historic MOU between Chongqing City and Greater Sydney Municipality that was signed by Lord Mayor Clover Moore and witnessed by NSW Premier Kristina Keneally at the Sydney-Chongqing Business Forum on 22 February 2010 can be obtained from: http://www.accci.com.au/DA_MOU_A.pdf.  Photographs taken at the Forum are available at: http://www.accci.com.au/Sydney_Chongqing.pdf.

 

Text of the speech by The Hon. Julie Bishop MP, Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Australia-China Business Summit at the Parliament House of NSW on 31 August 2009 is available at:  http://www.accci.com.au/BishopJspeech.pdf.  Media release with photograph is available at:  http://www.accci.com.au/ACSCSMedia.pdf.

 

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A new national organisation for town and city centre development in New Zealand held its second annual general meeting.  Details are available at: http://www.urbannz.co.nz/TownsCitiesNZ/tabid/371/Default.aspx.

 

An invitation to the Australasia-China Sister Cities Summit (ACSCS and the Australasia-China Business Summit (ACBS) at Parliament House of NSW from 28 June to 30 June 2010 is available at: http://www.accci.com.au/ACSCS&ACBSInvitation2010.pdf.  Also available is the list of supporters in China of the ACSCS and ACBS:  http://www.accci.com.au/ACSCS&ACBSChinaSupporters.doc.

 

Call for papers for the 11th International Cities Town Centres and Communities Society Conference, 12 – 15 October 2010 at the Opal Cove Convention Centre in Coffs Harbour.  Complete information is available at: http://www.ictcsociety.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=F2QeWiKvBMQ%3d&tabid=105.

 

A Chamber “Welcome to Sydney” from Michael C.H. Jones, 17th February 2010.  http://www.accci.com.au/ChamberWelcome.pdf.

 

Presentation of W J Liu Esq OBE Memorial Prize for Chinese Studies.  Click here for details.  Student research papers relating to China by Nicole Moir and Clement Miu.

 

Global Economic Relations and Governance with Special Reference to the Indauspac Maritime Community

 

William Pesek, “Debt-Fuelled Booms: Soaring China Should Be the Last One to Throw Stones”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/debtfuelled-booms-soaring-china-should-be-the-last-one-to-throw-stones-20100721-10l97.html.

 

John Tozzi, “Maryland Passes ‘Benefit Corp.’ Law for Social Entrepreneurs”, Bloomberg Businessweek, 13 April, 2010.  Available at: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2010/04/benefit_corp_bi.html

 

Malcolm Turnbull, “Chinese Debt Binge Is Fuelling a Dangerous Property Bubble”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/chinese-debt-binge-is-fuelling-a-dangerous-property-bubble-20100615-yd1a.html.

 

Amy Corderoy, “Managers Turn Blind Eye, Bribe Study Says”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/managers-turn-blind-eye-bribe-study-says-20100613-y64f.html.  See also comment by Michael C H Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/TransparencyComment.pdf.

 

Peter Hartcher, “In China, the Party Always Starts at the Top”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/inscrutable-china-a-powerful-panda-that-keeps-the-world-guessing-20100607-xqrb.html.

 

John Garnaut, “Don’t Write Off the Communists – China’s Ruling Party is Eminently Adaptable”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2010.  Available at:  http://www.smh.com.au/business/dont-write-off-the-communists--chinas-ruling-party-is-eminently-adaptable-20100531-wrfu.html.

 

Peter Hartcher, “As China Rises, It Demands a Deference We Should Be Wary to Give”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2010.  http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/as-china-rises-it-demands-a-deference-we-should-be-wary-to-give-20100531-wr8w.html.

 

John Lee, “Authoritarian China Won’t Bow to US Policy”, Executive Highlights No. 1054 (undated), The Centre for Independent Studies.  Available at: http://www.cis.org.au/executive_highlights/EH2010/eh105410.html.

 

James Kirby, “ Australia Is Sliding Down the International Corruption Ladder”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 April 2010.  Available at:  http://www.smh.com.au/business/australia-is-sliding-down-the-international-corruption-ladder-20100424-tknv.html.

 

Alan Dupont, “Many Shared Interests but Few Shared Values with China”, The Australian, 12 April, 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/many-shared-interests-but-few-shared-values-with-china/story-e6frg6zo-1225852475053.

 

Text of ministerial statement by the Hon. Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Australia-India Relationship dated 9 February 2010: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2010/100209_australia_india.html.

 

Text of media release from the Hon. Simon Crean, Australian Minister for Trade entitled “Strengthening the Australia-Africa Partnership”, dated 5 February 2010 is available at: http://www.trademinister.gov.au/releases/2010/sc_100205a.html.

 

Text of speech by the Hon. Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs at the South African Institute for International Affairs, Pretoria, on 26 January 2010 entitles “Multilateral Engagement: Priorities for Australia and South Africa”: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2010/100126_saiia.html.

 

Text of media release by the Hon. Simon Crean, Australian Minister for Trade, entitled, “Congratulations to Chile for Joining the OECD”, dated 16 December 2009.  Available at: http://www.trademinister.gov.au/releases/2009/sc_091216.

 

Rowan Callick, “Dysfunctional Diplomacy”, The Australian, 15 January 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/dysfunctional-diplomacy/story-e6frg6z6-1225819421164.

 

Keynote Address by the Hon Simon Crean MP Australian Minister for Trade to the Australia Japan Business Cooperation Committee Conference in Tokyo on 26 October 2009 is available at http://www.trademinister.gov.au/speeches/2009/091026_keynote_ajbccc.html.

Speech by the Hon Stephen Smith MP Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs entitled “Australia-China Relations: A Long-Term View” was delivered on 26 October 2009 at Australian National University’s China Institute.  It is available at: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2009/091026_aus_china.html.

 

Joint Media Announcement with the Australian Prime Minister from the Hon Simon Crean MP entitled “Largest Australian Free Trade Agreement to Begin in 2010” is dated 25 October 2009.  Available at http://www.trademinister.gov.au/releases/2009/sc_091025_jpr.html.  A speech by Hon Simon Crean on 19 March 2009, giving more information about the trade agreement, is available at http://www.trademinister.gov.au/speeches/2009/090317_aanzfta.html.

 

“Outcomes Document” pertaining to the Special Forum Trade Ministers Meeting 23 – 24 October 2009 from the Hon Simon Crean MP Australian Minister for Trade is available at: http://www.trademinister.gov.au/releases/2009/sc_091024-outcomes.html.

 

Speech by the Hon Stephen Smith MP Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs entitled “Australia and India: A Convergence of Interests given in Mumbai to the Asia Society on 15 October 2009 is available at: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2009/091015_asia_society.html.

 

Speech by the Hon Stephen Smith MP Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs is entitled “Australia: Looking Anew at Latin America and the Caribbean” at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile on 27 August 2009.  Available at: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2009/090827_uneclac.html.

 

Address by the Hon Simon Crean MP Australian Minister for Trade entitled “Our Pacific Agenda: The Opportunity of PACER Plus” at the opening of the Lowy Institute’s Conference on Pacific Islands in the World, 2 August 2009 is available at: http://www.trademinister.gov.au/speeches/2009/090802_lowy.html.

 

Speech to the Hon Stephen Smith MP Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs to commemorate Africa Day 25 May 2009 is available at: http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2009/090525_africa_day.html.

 

Speeches by National Leaders and Commentaries Thereof

 

Michael Kroger, “Despite the Gloss, Julia Gillard is Just Another Phony”, The Australian, 26 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/despite-the-gloss-julia-gillard-is-just-another-phoney/story-fn59niix-1225896765834.

 

Simon Mann, “Democrats on the Ropes in the Only Poll that Counts in the US”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2010.  Available at:  http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/democrats-on-the-ropes-in-the-only-poll-that-counts-in-the-us-20100720-10jg3.html.  Also relevant:  E.J. Dionne Jr. “Going Back or Forward? Australian Vote Leads the Way”, The Washington Post, 22 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/21/AR2010072104064.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions.

 

Patricia Edgar, “Hazel Hawke Written Out in Biased History”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/hazel-hawke-written-out-in-biased-history-20100720-10jg2.html?autostart=1

 

Nick Dyrenfurth, “Rise of the Greens Could Spell the Strange Death of Labor Party”, The Australian, 20 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/rise-of-the-greens-could-spell-the-strange-death-of-labor-party/story-e6frgd0x-1225894260227.

 

Mungo MacCallum, “May the Least Loathed Win, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 July 2010.  Available at:  http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/may-the-least-loathed-win-20100719-10hp1.html.

 

Nick Ralston, “A Daughter Enraged: ‘If Only Hazel Could Speak for Herself’”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/a-daughter-enraged-if-only-hazel-could-speak-for-herself-20100716-10egy.html.

 

Paul Keating, “Paul Keating Hits Back: ‘Hawke Only Survived as PM with My Help”, The Australian, 16 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/keating-hits-back-hawke-only-survived-as-pm-with-my-help/story-e6frgczf-1225891811095.

 

Arthur Sinodinos, “Kevin’s Shadow is Spooking the PM”, The Australian, 15 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/kevins-shadow-is-spooking-the-pm/story-e6frg6zo-1225891819015.

 

Julia Gillard, “Our Security Is at Stake in Afghanistan”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/our-security-is-at-stake-in-afghanistan-20100711-105jz.html

 

Phillip Adams, “Not the Kevin I Know”, The Australian, 9 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/not-the-kevin-i-know/story-e6frg8h6-1225889693230.

 

Reuters, “Chinese Magazine Breaks Zhao Taboo”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July 2010.  Available at:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/chinese-magazine-breaks-zhao-taboo-20100708-1022g.html.

http://www.slate.com/id/2259796/pagenum/all/#p2.

 

Bettina Arndt, “Shacking Up Is Hard To Do: Why Gillard May Be Leery of the Lodge”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/shacking-up-is-hard-to-do-why-gillard-may-be-leery-of-the-lodge-20100628-zexr.html?autostart=1.

 

Dan Oakes, “Former Ambassadors Question Silence on the ‘Excesses’ of Israel”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/former-ambassadors-question-silence-on-the-excesses-of-israel-20100628-zf9t.html.

 

Paul Kelly, “Factions, Patronage and Survival, The Australian, 26 June2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/factions-patronage-and-survival/story-e6frg6zo-1225884478423.

 

Peter Hartcher, “Julia Keneally? PM Must Avoid Being Factional Puppett”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2010.  Available at:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/julia-keneally-pm-must-avoid-being-factional-puppet-20100624-z3qs.html.

 

Janet Albrechtsen, “Lonely PM Is Not Life of the Party”, The Australian, 16 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/lonely-pm-is-not-life-of-the-party/story-e6frg6zo-1225880108217.

 

Paul Austin, “Baillieu Tells of Sadness After Fraser Quits Liberal Party”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 2010.  Available at:  http://www.smh.com.au/national/baillieu-tells-of-sadness-after-fraser-quits-liberal-party-20100526-wbes.html?autostart=1.  See also: Miranda Devine, “A Convert to the Preaching Will Have No Power to Change, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/a-convert-to-the-preaching-will-have-no-power-to-change-20100526-wdzt.html.  And from The Australian, “Former PM Malcolm Fraser Quits Liberals”, 26 May 2010, at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/former-pm-malcolm-fraser-quits-liberals/story-e6frgczf-1225871383923.

 

Ross Gittins, “Shonky Advisers Have Led Rudd Badly Astray”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2010.  Available at:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/shonky-advisers-have-led-rudd-badly-astray-20100523-w41x.html.

 

Glenn Milne, “Camera-Shy Rudd Is Exposed by Libs”, The Australian, 26 April 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/camera-shy-rudd-is-exposed-by-libs/story-e6frg75x-1225858120666.  Comment on the article by Michael C.H. Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/ThePandora’sBox.pdf. 

 

David Burchell, “Stubborn Reality a Lesson for Labor”, The Australian, 21 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/stubborn-reality-a-lesson-for-labor/story-e6frg6zo-1225882006141

 

Michael Costa, “Rudd Will Pay for Voodoo Politics”, The Australian, 1 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-will-pay-for-voodoo-politics/story-e6frg6zo-1225873731673.

 

Philip Ayres, “More Machiavelli Than Small-L Liberal” The Australian, 27 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/more-machiavelli-than-small-l-liberal/story-e6frg6zo-1225871762403.

 

Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie, “Sex and Bribes: RBA Exposed”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/sex-and-bribes-rba-exposed-20100523-w41j.html

 

Phillip Coorey, “Abbott’s Straight-Talking Image Takes a Hit”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/abbotts-straighttalking-image-takes-a-hit-20100518-va7s.html.

 

Michael Sainsbury, “Rio Tinto Mops up After China Bribery Mess, The Australian, 17 April 2010. Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/rio-tinto-mops-up-after-china-bribery-mess/story-e6frg8zx-1225854714207

 

See also the article by Ian McIlwraith in The Sydney Morning Herald at: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/news-is-on-the-outside-looking-in-and-on-the-inside-watching-out-20100426-tndm.html.

 

Tony Abbott, “Tony Abbott’s Address to the Lowy Institute on Defence Policy”, The Australian 24 April 2010.  Available at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/tony-abbotts-address-to-the-lowy-institute-on-defence-policy/story-e6frgczf-1225857609811.

 

Text of speech by Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, “Australia and China in the World”, 2010 Morrison Lecture, Australian National University, Canberra, 23 April 2010.  Available at: http://www.pm.gov.au/node/6700.

 

Bernard K. Gordon, “Obama’s Visit to Indonesia and Australia and the TPP”, East Asia Forum, 30 May 2010.  Available at:  http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/05/30/obamas-visit-to-indonesia-and-australia-and-the-tpp/.

 

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, transcript of Kerry O’Brien interviewing President Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House,15 April 2010.  Available at: http://resources.news.com.au/files/2010/04/15/1225854/268451-100415-obama-transcript.pdf.

 

Link to a map of the provinces of Indonesia that relates to President's Sydney Business Speech re the Australia/Indonesia decision to concentrate on the six eastern provinces of Indonesia re the Wallis Line or the Melanesia part of Indonesia.  Available at: http://www.indonesiamatters.com/images/indonesia-map.gif.

 

Text of speech by Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia at a business forum in Sydney, 11 March 2010.  Available at http://www.presidenri.go.id/index.php/eng/pidato/2010/03/11/1355.html.

 

Greg Sheridan, “Feel-Good Show Lacked Depth”, The Australian, 11 March 2010.  Commentary on the speech before the Australian Parliament by Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/feel-good-show-lacked-depth/story-e6frg6zo-1225839324692

 

Text of speech by before the Australian Parliament, 10 March 2010.  Avalable at http://www.presidenri.go.id/index.php/eng/pidato/2010/03/10/1353.html.

 

Malcolm Colless, “Nothing to Declare after PM’s Foreign Affairs”, The Australian, 23 February 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/nothing-to-declare-after-pms-foreign-affairs/story-e6frg6zo-1225833182722.

 

Gerald Henderson, “Labor’s Loose Cannons Allow Friendships to Turn Frosty”, 23 The Sydney Morning Herald, February 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/labors-loose-cannons-allow-friendships-to-turn-frosty-20100222-ornk.html.

 

Australian PM Rudd proclaims New Left 'Framework' and 'Grand Bargain' for Global Economic Relations and Governance into the 21st Century in an address to the UN General Assembly.  At: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/rudd-speech-to-the-united-nations-20090924-g3nn.html.

 

PM Rudd asserts a social democratic global narrative in his search for leadership - a viewpoint on current ideological debate worldwide.  At: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26089126-28737,00.html.

 

Robert Kagan, “On Foreign Policy, Obama and the GOP Find Room for Agreement”, The Washington Post, 5 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030402271.html?wpisrc=nl_pmopinions.

 

Tom Hayden, “What Obama Must Do, and Cannot”, The Huffington Post, 27 January 2010.  Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/what-obama-must-do-and-ca_b_439163.html.

 

USA President Obama addresses first meeting of US-China 'Strategic and Economic Dialogue’ (G2) on the key questions of the next decade.  At: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/07/27/obamas-remarks-on-the-us-china-relationship/.

 

An article in the Wall Street Journal by Hillary Clinton and Timothy Geithner indicating that few global problems can be solved by either the USA or the PRC acting alone.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204886304574308753825396372.html.

 

John Garnaut, “China Insider Sees Revolution Brewing”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 2010. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/china-insider-sees-revolution-brewing-20100226-p92d.html.

 

Michael Sainsbury, “Beijing Raises the Stakes”, The Australian, 27 February 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/beijing-raises-the-stakes/story-e6frg6ux-1225834605748.

 

Text of opening address at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2009 by Wen Jiabao,  18 April 2009:  http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/yfgk/t558306.htm.

 

Full text of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference, updated 13/04/2008 is available at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/13/content_6612499.htm.

 

Text of commentary entitled “History” focuses in several significant events since 1998 at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/08/content_6599692.htm.

 

Text of the speech by His Excellency Ambassador Zhang Junsai entitled ‘Australia and China: New Directions in Learning Connections’ presented at the China Education Centre, University of Sydney, 26 September 2008: In PDF.

 

Observations

 

ACCCI Observations 1 “On the Purpose and Objectives of the ACCCI Website Homepage” by Michael C H Jones is dated 23 November 2009.  Download from: http://www.accci.com.au/Observations1.pdf.

 

ACCCI Observations 2 “On Peoples Diplomacy in the Cities of China and the Right to Interfere” by Michael C H Jones is dated 2 December 2009.  Download from: http://www.accci.com.au/Observations2.pdf.

 

ACCCI Observations 3 “On Indauspac as an International Framework for China's Role in Global Governance and Economic Relations” by Michael C H Jones is dated 21 December 2009.  Download from: http://www.accci.com.au/Observations3.pdf.

 

ACCCI Observations 4 “On China’s Economic and Political Progress During the Past Decade” by John Zerby is dated 17 January 2010.  Download from: http://www.accci.com.au/Observations4.pdf.

 

Sydney – a Place of Learning:

 

Josephine Tovey, “Booming city Needs Another Heart, Planners Told”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/booming-city-needs-another-heart-planners-told-20100720-10jjk.html#poll

 

David Williamson, “In Emerald City, the More Things Change …”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July 2010.  http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/in-emerald-city-the-more-things-change--20100716-10e3h.html.

 

Edward J. Blakely, “Sydney, Our Economic Capital, Needs a Re-think”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/sydney-our-economic-capital-needs-a-rethink-20100616-ydwj.html.

 

Brian Robins, “Sydney: Worst-Planned City in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June 2010.  Available at:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-worstplanned-city-in-australia-20100613-y64m.html#poll.

 

Jess Scully, “Inspiration Needed to Help Build a Truly Creative City, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2010.  Available at:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/inspiration-needed-to-help-build-a-truly-creative-city-20100523-w3sc.html.

 

Julian Lee and Matthew Moore, “Banding Together to Sell the Harbour City to the World”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/banding-together-to-sell-the-harbour-city-to-the-world-20100430-tzb0.html

 

Charles Waterstreet, “In the Cross Fire, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/in-the-cross-fire-20100320-qn4m.html.

 

Susan Wyndham, “Samoan Poet Sweeps Away Australians”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/samoan-poet-sweeps-away-australians/2010/03/11/1268203353971.html.

 

Text of speech by the Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affiars entitled “Australia and Africa: Looking to the Future”, at the University of Sydney International forum on Africa, Sydney, 19 March 2010.  Available at:

http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2010/100319_australia_and_africa.html

 

Sydney Girls Steal Paris Fashion Show, as told by Catherine Caines, “The Body is Back on the Catwalk, The Australian 11 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/executive-lifestyle/the-body-is-back-on-the-catwalk/story-e6frg8k6-1225839607724.

 

David Morris, “Time to Sell Sydney’s Extra Dimension”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 January 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/time-to-sell-sydneys-extra-dimension-20100106-lu7k.html.

 

Bernard Lane, “Sydney Uni Beats Oxford, Harvard in Debating”, The Australian, 5 January 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sydney-uni-beats-oxford-harvard-in-debating/story-e6frg6nf-1225816072115.

 

Oliver Hartwich, “We Aren’t Just Larrikins”, The Australian, 24 December 2009.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/we-arent-just-larrikins/story-e6frg6zo-1225813288729.

 

Statement from Bianca Cooper, an education student at the University of Sydney.  In PDF.

 

 


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