This combo photo shows Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) talking at a function at Government House in Sydney on April 17, 2009, Treasurer Wayne Swan (C) attending the Australian Labor Party's first caucus meeting in Canberra on November 29, 2007 and the then chairman of the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) and current opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull (R) holding a press conference in Sydney on November 5, 1999. Australia's political leaders traded furious accusations in parliament on June 22, 2009 over a scandal that has put their jobs on the line, as an email at the centre of the row was reported as a fake. Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull repeated his claim that Treasurer Wayne Swan had lied over the so-called "Utegate" affair, prompting an angry rebuttal from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Turnbull says Rudd and Swan helped a car-dealer friend seeking government funds, basing his claim on an email printed in weekend newspapers which supposedly came from the Treasury. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

This combo photo shows Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) talking at a function at Government House in Sydney on April 17, 2009, Treasurer Wayne Swan (C) attending the Australian Labor Party's first caucus meeting in Canberra on November 29, 2007 and the then chairman of the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) and current opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull (R) holding a press conference in Sydney on November 5, 1999. Australia's political leaders traded furious accusations in parliament on June 22, 2009 over a scandal that has put their jobs on the line, as an email at the centre of the row was reported as a fake. Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull repeated his claim that Treasurer Wayne Swan had lied over the so-called "Utegate" affair, prompting an angry rebuttal from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Turnbull says Rudd and Swan helped a car-dealer friend seeking government funds, basing his claim on an email printed in weekend newspapers which supposedly came from the Treasury.

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  1. Chilean Maria Olivia Recart (FRONT/R) talks with Charimen of FMM Tharman Shanmugaratnam (C) as Australia's Wayne Swan (L) and Vu Van Ninh of Vietnam look on among finance and trade ministers as they for a group photograph during a break at a plenary meeting in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore on November 12, 2009. Asia-Pacific economies led by the United States and China opened annual talks with calls to fight protectionism or risk reversing the region's 'fragile' economic rebound. Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said 'resisting protectionism' was the topmost concern, as foreign and trade ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met in advance of a weekend summit here.

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  1. SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 13: Australia's Prime MInister Kevin Russ arrives in Singapore on the first day of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre on November 13, 2009 in Singapore, Singapore. APEC 2009 brings together 800 business leaders and 15 world leaders to Singapore, with the two-day Summit addressing the economic crisis and key global issues.
  2. SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 13: Australia's Prime MInister arrives in Singapore the first day of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit being held at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre on November 13, 2009 in Singapore, Singapore. APEC 2009 brings together 800 business leaders and 15 world leaders to Singapore, with the two-day Summit addressing the economic crisis and key global issues.
  3. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  4. Signage at a Church of Scientology building in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills is shown on November 18, 2009. Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced 'concerns' about the Church of Scientology on November 18 after a senator detailed explosive allegations including torture, imprisonment and coerced abortions.
  5. Signage at a Church of Scientology building in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills is shown on November 18, 2009. Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced 'concerns' about the Church of Scientology on November 18 after a senator detailed explosive allegations including torture, imprisonment and coerced abortions.
  6. Signage (L) at a Church of Scientology building in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills is shown on November 18, 2009. Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced 'concerns' about the Church of Scientology on November 18 after a senator detailed explosive allegations including torture, imprisonment and coerced abortions.
  7. Australian Finance Minister Wayne Swan (R) listens to his unseen Singapore counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam speaks during the official dinner for finance ministers in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Singapore on November 12, 2009. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said a strong dollar was 'very important' to the United States and praised China's role in the global economic recovery. After an Asia-Pacific meeting here, Geithner also said President Barack Obama's US administration would persist with its hefty stimulus spending for now.
  8. Thailand's Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanji (L), International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) and Australia's Treasurer Wayne Swan attend the Finance Ministers Meeting Official Dinner during the APEC Summit in Singapore November 12, 2009.
  9. Australian Minister Wayne Swan (L) addresses a press conference by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) finance ministers in Singapore on November 12, 2009, on the sidelines of the APEC summit. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that a strong dollar was 'very important' to the United States and praised China's role in the global economic recovery.
  10. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) talks with Chilean Maria Olivia Recart (R) and Chairmen of FMM Tharman Shanmugaratnam (C) as Haruhiko Kuroda ( 2nd row L) of Asian Development Bank, Australia's Wayne Swan and Vietnam's Tran Xuan ha look on prior to a group photograph of finance and trade minister during a break at a plenary meeting in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore on November 12, 2009. Asia-Pacific economies led by the United States and China opened annual talks with calls to fight protectionism or risk reversing the region's 'fragile' economic rebound. Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said 'resisting protectionism' was the topmost concern, as foreign and trade ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met in advance of a weekend summit here.
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  12. Chilean Maria Olivia Recart (FRONT/R) talks with Charimen of FMM Tharman Shanmugaratnam (C) as Australia's Wayne Swan (L) and Tran Xuan Ha of Vietnam look on among finance and trade ministers as they for a group photograph during a break at a plenary meeting in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore on November 12, 2009. Asia-Pacific economies led by the United States and China opened annual talks with calls to fight protectionism or risk reversing the region's 'fragile' economic rebound. Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said 'resisting protectionism' was the topmost concern, as foreign and trade ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group met in advance of a weekend summit here.
  13. Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson arrives for a meeting at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) office in London October 26, 2009. Royal Mail bosses and union leaders met on Monday to try to resolve the postal dispute and avert further nationwide strikes later this week. The strikes, part of a dispute over pay and jobs, and the pace of modernisation at the state-owned company, are a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party which receives a large chunk of its funding from the trade union movement.
  14. Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson arrives for a meeting at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) office in London October 26, 2009. Royal Mail bosses and union leaders met on Monday to try to resolve the postal dispute and avert further nationwide strikes later this week. The strikes, part of a dispute over pay and jobs, and the pace of modernisation at the state-owned company, are a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party which receives a large chunk of its funding from the trade union movement.
  15. Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson walks past waiting media as he arrives for a meeting at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) office in London October 26, 2009. Royal Mail bosses and union leaders met on Monday to try to resolve the postal dispute and avert further nationwide strikes later this week. The strikes, part of a dispute over pay and jobs, and the pace of modernisation at the state-owned company, are a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party which receives a large chunk of its funding from the trade union movement.
  16. Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson walks past waiting media as he arrives for a meeting at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) office in London October 26, 2009. Royal Mail bosses and union leaders met on Monday to try to resolve the postal dispute and avert further nationwide strikes later this week. The strikes, part of a dispute over pay and jobs, and the pace of modernisation at the state-owned company, are a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party which receives a large chunk of its funding from the trade union movement.

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