Editorial

This month we have a strong international flavour to the newsletter. We’ve delayed this month’s Track II newsletter by about a week so we could get fresh off-the-ground commentary about the Australian election results and their impact on the Asia-Pacific region from the Lowy Institute’s Dr Malcolm Cook. Also from Australia, Meileng Tam

APEC, Terra Australis

Edición SE1093 (21 oct 2007)

Terra Australis Incognita, o la Tierra Desconocida del Sur, fue una suerte de continente imaginario que –basándose en antiguas leyendas clásicas– los navegantes de inicios de la edad moderna intuyeron que existía en algún lugar cerca del polo sur. Descubierta inicialmente por el navegante portugués (al servicio de España) Pedro Fernandez de Queiroz (quien, para mayores señas, partió del puerto del Callao) pero mantenida en secreto hasta que el inglés James Cook reclamó la tierra para la corona británica hacia 1770 (y

After the polls close at 6pm (Eastern Time, I think Western Australia will still be going then) we'll gather together with our beers to see if Australia has a new PM.

So far it's been quite a dynamic campaign and many predict that it will be photo finish between the incumbent John Howard and the opposition leader Kevin Rudd.

In a nutshell, what I have been hearing is: John Howard stands for economic stability and

The keynote speech by President Yudhoyono also got plenty of media coverage - both Australian and Indonesian.

Major Australian newspaper like The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian reported on the speech, commenting on its impact of Australia-Indonesia relations.

And well known Indonesian newspapers like Kompas reported on it as well as detik.com.

But I can't tell you what they've said about it due to my lack of Bahasa Indonesian, so for those who can, please feel free to have a read and share it with us!

Thanks!

Rather belatedly, but better now then never - as they say, here is an article in the Australian Financial Review on our APEC 2020. Great story - have a read!

Article in Australian Financial Review

We had the privilege to listen to a keynote address from

This was a an unexpected surprise and the first taste of many interesting conversations we had during the two days in our meetings.

Here is a link to the president's keynote address.

Asialink's Apec2020 is a virtual followup of the conversations we started in Sydney on September 2007.

"Apec2020 a conversation for leaders" is an initiative of Asialink