With Australia confirmed as the destination for the next G20, Gillard is set to announce next June which city will host it. Cafe Whispers presents a list of strengths and weaknesses. For example: NSW is the only state with a water cannon.
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Ferrari chief turns up the heat on Berlusconi
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of the luxury sports car maker, Ferrari, has openly called for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign, writes Jo McKenna, a freelance journalist in Rome.
Gottliebsen: short-changed by a super gamble
The G20 Financial Stability Board has alerted Australia that our banking sector is becoming too exposed to the commodities boom, writes Robert Gottliebsen.
Political snippets: Why G20 is a waste of time
As an exercise in international futility it is hard to go past a meeting of the G20.
Grattan: Gillard’s got her game on
While overseas at the G20 and APEC summits, Julia Gillard has impressively balanced foreign affairs with her home ground agenda. She’s also hobnobbed with Obama and gained substantial cred on the international circuit, writes Michelle Grattan.
Introducing Julia Gillard, PM of Austria-alia
Julia Gillard touched down in Seoul yesterday for the annual G20 leaders summit but a version of her has been standing in the city square for some time: a Gillard figurine that was mistakenly clothed in Austrian garb, reports Malcolm Farr.
G20 goes wild: inside the protesters’ camp
Inside the G20 leaders have pledged to slash budget deficits by half in just three years, but outside the summit over 550 protesters have been arrested in violent protests. Two Toronto Star journos spent six days with anarchist demonstrators .
PHOTO GALLERY: Scary scenes from the G20 summit 
Splits fracture the G20
When it comes to Iran sanctions, withdrawing from Afghanistan and international aid, many of the G20 and G8 leaders are divided over what should be done.
David Cameron: I want G20 to live up to the hype
British PM David Cameron pens an op-ed, outlining his ambitious plans for the G20 and G8 summits: each country needs to fix its own economy, tax the banks and get trade happening.
PHOTO GALLERY: Graffiti, police on bikes and violence — G20 protests begin
The G20 summit is nearly under way in Canada and already the security fences are erected, police are arresting protesters and protesters are covering themselves in oil to signify the BP spill.
Milne: Rudd has wedged himself on fossil fuel subsidies
One thing Kevin Rudd probably wants even less right now is to open up a new front in the battle with the cashed-up miners, writes Australian Greens deputy leader Christine Milne.
G20 dreaming on economic upturn
Finance ministers of the world’s top 20 economies have indulged in one of the more fruitless gabfests. Instead of being united by fear and concern for the slow US economy, they are just linked by their usual competing interests,.
Europe’s plan for world domination
With the European Union set to elect its first president and foreign minister, Europe is gearing up to flex its muscles as a genuine global superpower — and it will use the “Trojan Horse” of the G20 to do it, says Gideon Rachman.
VIDEO: Kevin PM says, “look what I brought home from Pittsburgh”
The Prime Minister put this video out today, explaining why an invigorated G20 is important for the world’s economic future — and Australia. And especially the suburbs.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The UN: messy, slow, absurd… important
Crikey readers weigh in on the G20, Ian Macfarlane, Centrelink, Zen and Respectember.
Henderson: The media sings along to Rudd’s G20 tune
There’s no doubt Rudd played an important role in the recent expansion of the G20’s power — but he certainly didn’t do it alone. So why is the media happily churning along with the ALP spin cycle by painting him as a lone visionary? asks Gerard Henderson.
G20: present at the Ruddation
It won’t get any better than this for Rudd: he may have inherited the G20 from his predecessor, but it will now forever be linked to his name in Australian foreign policy.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Sugar not so simple
The internet will kill off local booksellers more than large booksellers will, writes the CEO of Dymocks. Plus, Crikey readers weigh in on climate aid and the differences in sugar.
G20: decoding the leaders’ communiqué
The official G20 Leaders’ communiqué was released this morning, assessing the policies released in April to fix the world’s economy. Bernard Keane breaks it down for us mere mortals.
Mungo MacCallum: Make no mistake, this is a new world order
The acceptance of the G20 as a rule-maker for the conduct of the world’s financial systems quite literally ushers in a new world economic order: a genuine democratisation that directly includes two-thirds of the world’s population and indirectly gives a voice to the rest.
Crikey Says: The lingering absurdity of the UN
This week we’ve had the world powers of the G20 and the UN General Assembly hitting the headlines. Except, only one of these two institutions is making any sense.
Kevin Rudd’s big G20 win
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s key focus while in the United States was pushing for the G20 to become a “driving force” for economic cooperation. He got his way. The G20 summit has agreed the body will supersede the G8.
Carney: Rudd picks up where Costello left off on G20
In some ways, getting the G20 front and centre for global economic decision-making was a bipartisan Australian effort. It started with Peter Costello as Treasurer, backed up by Kevin Rudd, with some help from Barack Obama, says Shaun Carney.
Kevin Rudd spruiks the G20; let’s hope it’s not another APEC
Kevin Rudd’s priority has been to sell the American foreign policy establishment on the benefits of the G20 as the “driving centre” of a new global framework. But will it become just another pointless talkfest?
