Kevin Rudd has urged APEC leaders to echo the commitments made at the G20 meeting.
Rudd urges APEC to echo G20 financial crisis commitments
Speaking on his first day in the APEC leaders meeting in Peru, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the seizure of the financial system has damaged everyone.
He says the Asia-Pacific economies have to act in unison if they are to have a chance of stemming the economic damage from the financial crisis.
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Kiwis win World Cup
New Zealand staged the biggest upset in World Cup history, shocking defending champions Australia 34-20 in the final.
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Job 'jump-start'
Barack Obama has ordered his economic advisers to produce an economic recovery plan to create 2.5 million new jobs by 2011.
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Qantas flight cancelled just before take-off
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Oppn criticises citizenship test changes
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Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter refused Zimbabwe visas
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- Alleged transatlantic terror plot mastermind killed: official
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Black Caps reeling at stumps
- Police hunt man after alleged child abduction
- Ambulance phone operator ban lifted
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Qantas flight cancelled just before take-off
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Adelaide reclaims second spot
- Adelaide leading Sydney at half-time
- SES out in force for storm damage clean-up
- Love leads Bulls to first-innings points
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Adelaide, Canberra draw as Qld and Sydney triumph
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A series of secret underground tunnels, dug in 1940 as London was blitzed by German bombers, are now up for sale.
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Kevin Rudd has arrived in Lima for a meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders.
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Rumours about Barack Obama's Cabinet have ignited Wall St but Citigroup stocks continued to plunge.
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Australia's highest Muslim authority has defended the practice of polygamy.
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A new ad campaign has been launched targeting teen binge drinking ahead of schoolies week.
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'Like a heap of jets': The central Queensland coal mining town of Blackwater has been battered in a storm.
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'Tears of joy': The family of murder victim Caroline Byrne hails Gordon Wood's guilty verdict.
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Atlantis rising: Explosion of excess at the opening of a $2.4 billion mega-hotel in Dubai.
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'Huge relief': Caroline Byrne's former boss, June Dally-Watkins, on the Gordon Wood verdict.
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Look back at the 13 years leading to the guilty verdict against Gordon Wood.
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Mount Isa's Mayor awarded Golden Ernie for sexist remarks.
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Half Light: A major new exhibition charts 50 years of work by Indigenous photographers.
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The Government has begun delivering on its promise to improve the lot of Kokoda Track locals, reopening a health clinic.
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Anger in Russia as the trial of three men over the murder of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya is closed to the public.
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First cut: A balcony has collapsed in Brisbane, injuring a group of mothers at end of Year 12 celebrations.
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Cadel Evans talks about his Tour de France preparations, the possibility of racing Lance Armstrong and drug cheats in cycling.
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Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks has broken his silence.
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Flood emergency: A woman has died in the fierce storms that have again swamped south-east Qld.
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'I probably am an idiot': A student was stranded for hours overnight after trying to cross a flooding Qld bridge.
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The RBA Governor says Australians should remain quietly confident about the economy.
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Al Qaeda has branded Barack Obama a 'house negro' in its first video message since the US election.
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Westpac warns there is a decent chance of a recession in the first half of next year.
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Locals are reeling after a father and his two young sons drowned during a fishing trip on the NSW south coast.
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Photographer Henry Diltz's work adorns some of the most famous album covers. Kirstin Murray reports on the man behind the pictures.
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Families are worried about child care shortages after the collapse of CFK.
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Families and servicemen remembered the 645 men who died at the HMAS Sydney sinking site.
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Researchers say a vitamin tablet can help protect against skin cancer.
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HealthWatch with Sophie Scott: Scientists are trying to create a vaccine against skin cancer.
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Lost in space: Tool bag drifts into the void during a nearly seven-hour spacewalk to repair the International Space Station.
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High seize: A hijacked Saudi supertanker carrying $US100m of oil has anchored off a notorious Somali pirate port.
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'Learning adventures': The stars of Baz Luhrmann's Australia hit the red carpet for the film's world premiere in Sydney.
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PM: Britain's Navy chief Admiral Sir Jonathan Band discusses the recent spate of ship hijackings by Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa.
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PM: The Federal Government has announced it will not be tailing Japan's whalers in the Southern Ocean this summer with its own ship.
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AM: Karen Barlow reports the Mount Isa mayor has won the sexism prize of the Gold Ernie for his 'beauty-disadvantaged' comments.
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News Online: Lawyer David McLeod says his client David Hicks has had a difficult time since his release from prison.
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PM: Nicole Butler reports another wild storm has wrought havoc in Brisbane, with the severe weather taking another life.
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PM: Jewish and Islamic groups are trying to block the British National Party leader's entry here, saying he could incite racial and religious hatred.
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News Online: Some rare good news for the automotive industry, with car maker Ford reversing a decision to close its Geelong manufacturing plant.
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News Audio: Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale says the areas affected by last night's storm are as bad as the 1974 floods.
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PM: Annie Guest reports the Qld Govt has launched a task force to help the recovery of storm-ravaged Brisbane.
Features and Analysis
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Longer lives
A new United Nations report says Chinese people are living longer than ever before.
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Local piracy fears
The Maritime Union is worried recent attacks by Somalian pirates will encourage pirates in the Indonesian shipping lanes.
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Consumer confidence down
Research has shown a drop in consumer confidence ahead of the peak Christmas period.
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A wee problem for ISS crew
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