Welcome to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit, Sydney: a $300 million week-long extravaganza, featuring the most powerful leaders from the world's most dynamic economic region. Bob Hawke proposed it. The first meeting was held in Canberra's Hyatt Hotel in 1989. Goto astory
The 21 APEC leaders have posed for the traditional group photo on the steps of the Sydney Opera House wearing brown tailor made knee-length Driza-Bone coats. The leaders had lunch today at Guillaume at Bennelong next to the Opera House. Goto full story

Julies comments: Max Weber interactionalism: APEC leaders in the staged performance of group photo reveals the cultural norm of the APEC institution. The scripted role uses national costume as the symbol and reveals symbolic meanings of unity, social cohesion and "orderly society" state of the APEX unit.

Julies comments: Conflict theory: Market perspective and economic development and trade deals .Why do we need the dominant ideology to "keep expanding world economies and the GPD of each country as an essential anti poverty tool" to eradicate poverty from poorer countries ?? When will the capitalistic countries stop eyeing and coveting cheap labour, and using collectivism of the earth's abundant resources and using other countries fertile soils for monoculture crops. APEC represents hegemony at its institutional best. Anti globalisation players recognise the worth of the "essential anti poverty tool" as false ideology. Where does the ideological ascendency (on globalisation ) prevail ?? Is it in Australia's climate change policy or the UN or the anti globalisation players ??

Excerp from APEC......3. We are confident that robust economic growth will continue and that we can make further progress in our goal to reduce poverty and increase living standards....5. APEC economies account for almost fifty per cent of world trade.....7. Economic growth in the region has outstripped the rest of the world: number of people living in poverty has halved since 1989.

Climate Change Policy: Australian Climate Change Policy and its Implications for AP6 Countries Bejing, April 2007 (page 1, 9, ) goto Climate change policy

RMIT: Globalisation Department : An adequately understood notion of causality is central to our attempts to tell better stories about globalization.

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