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Applications to Host the
14th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention are now being accepted by
the WCEC Secretariat. Details are available at: http://www.wcec-secretariat.org/download/notice.pdf. Chengdu to Host World
Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention in September, by Xinhua, CRI English, 7 March 2013. Available at: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/03/07/2702s752345.htm. ACCCI letter of support
for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of South Australia in their bid to host
the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention in Adelaide in 2015. Business
Events Sydney, in conjunction with the Australia-China Chamber of Commerce
and Industry, to host the 2013 World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference in
Sydney, 8 pages in PDF. Separate
Letters in Support of the above: From the Sydney Conservatorium of
Music From the Australia China Culture
Association From the Chinese Community Council of
Australia Inc From Clr Paul Garrard, Lord Mayor of the City of Parramatta From Clr Chiang Lim, Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Parramatta
From the Parramatta
Chamber of Commerce From Asia Media From Lotus Light
Charity Society From Austrade From Hong Kong
Economic & Trade Office From Ethnic Communities Council
of New South Wales The 10th World
Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention Schedule, in PDF. Final sponsorship and booth participation for the 11th World Chinese Entrepreneurs
Conference, to be held in Singapore 5-7
October 2011, are listed at:http://www.accci.com.au/11thWCECFinalSponsorship.pdf WCEC Registration
Form, in PDF and in Chinese Past Topics
and Themes for WCEC, 8 pages in PDF Introductory Comment In the mid
1990s following the first WCEC in Singapore during August 1991 and second in
Hong Kong during November 1993, attended by ACCCI Member companies from Australia
as well as China, Chamber sought to put together a bid to hold a WCEC in
Sydney. However Melbourne beat us to the prize in 1999 with Nanjing following
in 2001. We tried again about a decade later but due to changes in the
organisational structure of the NSW Government our over 12 months of
preparations did not result even in a bid document..
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The Chamber's broader perspectives for lodging a
bid to host the 12th WCEC are: Chamber supports multicultural conferences such
as the one arranged by the National Social Cohesion Conference, the theme of
which is “Enrichment Through a Socially Inclusive Society: Challenges and
Solutions”. Click here for details: http://accci.com.au/NSCC-ConferenceProgram.pdf |
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China Sovereign Fund in Australian Resources Drive, by Peter Cai and Philip Wen,
The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July
2012. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/china-sovereign-fund-in-australian-resources-drive-20120726-22vaw.html Consequences of China’s Boom Start to Get Complicated by Terry McCrann, The Australian, 2
April 2011. Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/consequences-of-chinas-boom-start-to-get-complicated/story-e6frg9if-1226032266712. Choice is Swim in Asia or Sing at Home by Bryan Firth, The Australian,
10 December 2010. Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/choice-is-swim-in-asia-or-sink-at-home/story-e6frg9if-1225968541898. Assessing China’s
Top-Down Securities Markets by William T. Allen and Han Shen, New
York University Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-42, 20 July
2010. Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1648336##. See also comment by Michael C H Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/JonesCommentonAllen+Shen.pdf. Merging from
the Crisis: The G20 and the Asia-Pacific by the Hon Wayne Swan, Deputy Prime
Minister and Treasurer, Address to Canada 2020 and the Canadian Australian
Chamber of Commerce, Toronto, Canada, 27 June 2010. Available at: http://www.treasurer.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=speeches/2010/020.htm&pageID=005&min=wms&Year=&DocType=. Other Countries
Might Copy the RSPT, Warns $40 billion man, by Geoff Elliott, The Australian 21
June 2010. Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/other-countries-might-copy-the-rspt-warns-40-billion-man/story-e6frg8zx-1225882017396. |
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The Social
Economy Economy: Unlocking Value and Productivity through Social Technologies by Michael Chui
and others, report by McKinsey Global Institute, July 2012. Available after registration at: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi/research/technology_and_innovation/the_social_economy Text of Speech:
“2011 Census of Population and Housing Multicultural Media Address”, by Jill Charker, (Acting) First Assistant Statistician, Social,
Health and Labour Division of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 26 June
2012. Available: http://accci.com.au/2011ABSMulticultural.pdf.
Photos of the
event: Dr Jill Charker, click here. Dr Geoffrey Lee, State Liberal Member from Parramata, click here. Nihal Gupta, click here Sheba Nandkoelyar,
click here. Dr Geoffrey Lee, Jill Charker and Sheba Nandkoelyar, click here. Nihal Gupta with Dr Lee and three other members of the census team, click here. The Census Team, click here. Michael C H Jones, President of ACCCI and Dr
Geoffrey Lee, click here. Exploring the China Syndrome:
Prosperity without Profile, by Tom Hyland, The Age, 15
January 2012. Available at: http://www.theage.com.au/national/exploring-the-china-syndrome-prosperity-without-profile-20120114-1q0o8.html Call for Papers: The Chinese
Community Council of Australia Inc will convene a second national conference
in Melbourne on 18-19 August 2012. The
Theme is “Moving On!”. For details - http://accci.com.au/CCCA_Moving_On.pdf. Moral Fitness
Needs a Workout for Kids' Sake, by Dr Anthony Pun, National President, Chinese
Community Council of Australia, Letter to the Sydney Morning Herald, 3 September 2011 at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/moral-fitness-needs-a-workout-for-kids-sake-20110902-1jqi2.html. “When will we be mature enough as a society to agree not to use desperate boat people as scapegoats for political games (''Labor Split Over Asylum'', 2 September http://www.smh.com.au/national/labor-split-over-asylum-20110901-1job8.htm)? Scapegoating of minorities has an impact on the character of our nation. The
hating of Indonesians during the trial and sentencing of Schapelle
Corby for drug trafficking in Bali is an example. We think we are better than
the Other and the Other should know better than to treat us according to
their laws. It may well be the legacy of our White Australia policy. Not so
many years ago, boat people were vilified in much the same way the Chinese
were demonised in the 19th century. Thankfully that mentality seems to have
subsided.
Hopefully
the newly announced Australian Multicultural Council will step up to its
task. Perhaps it will exercise its independence, a new endowment from the government,
by convening a meeting that summons the relevant government and opposition
members to find an edifying solution to the boat people issue. We are an
inventive and innovative nation. We led the world in social reforms in the
early part of last century. Surely we can try to keep that tradition going. When we
have put the boat people issue to bed, we will shed the cataracts in our
eyes, dissolve the clogging in our arteries, and unfetter our limbs for the
task of nation building so that a future generation will look back with
gratitude and admiration. The way
we inflict mental miseries upon the boat people predisposes us towards
mistreating powerless minorities among us similarly. Our younger generation
deserves better role models.” Act Has Chilling Effect on Freedom of Speech, by James Allan, The Australian,
6 April 2011.
Available at:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/commentary/act-has-chilling-effect-on-freedom-of-speech/story-e6frgd0x-1226034320717. The Confucius Institute, Wikipedia
(undated). Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute. See also comment by Michael C H Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/JonesCommentonConfuciusInstitutes.pdf. UN in Civil Society, United
Nations, (undated). Available at: http://www.un.org/en/civilsociety/. Land of the Free Now Home of the Afraid, by Toby Harnden, The Sydney
Morning Herald, 13 July 2010.
Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/land-of-the-free-now-home-of-the-afraid-20100712-107sq.html. Australia’s Top Diplomat Expelled from Fiji, The Sydney Morning Herald,
13 July 2010. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/australias-top-diplomat-expelled-from-fiji-20100713-108an.html. Recent
Statements from the Fiji Government Online Portal: Australian Foreign Minister’s Comments Exaggerated, 30 June 2010: New Media Decree Part of Government Reforms, 1 July 2010: New Media Decree Clear on Investment, 1
July 2010. News Limited Attacks Fiji Economy Over Media Decree, 6 Jul 2010: PM Condemns Australian Government Statement 7 July 2010: Fiji Still Honoured to Partner the USA, 7 July 2010: |
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O’Farrell ‘Originals’ Swing Coalition into New Territory, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June
2011.
Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ofarrell-originals-swung-coalition-into-new-territory-20110619-1ga9a.html. Inquiry Into Multiculturalism in Australia, Terms of Reference, Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Australian Parliament,
(undated). Available at: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/mig/multiculturalism/tor.htm. Submission No. 12 to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration, by John Hatzistergos, NSW Minister for Citizenship. 3 March
2011. Available at: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/mig/multiculturalism/subs/sub12.pdf. Look to NSW for
Multicultural Utopic, Hatzistergos Tells Federal Inquiry, by Kirsty Needham, The Sydney
Morning Herald, 5 April 2011. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/look-to-nsw-for-multicultural-utopia-hatzistergos-tells-federal-inquiry-20110404-1cyml.html. Different but
Equal,
Federation of Ethnic Communities Council in Australia, November 2010. Available at: http://www.fecca.org.au/PDF/DifferentButEqualNov2010.pdf People of Australia: Australia’s Multicultural Policy, by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Australia
Government (undated). Available at http://www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/multicultural/pdf_doc/people-of-australia-multicultural-policy-booklet.pdf. How I Lost Faith in Multiculturalism, by Greg Sheridan, The
Australian 2 April 2011. Available
at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/how-i-lost-faith-in-multiculturalism/story-fn59niix-1226031793805 Chinese Censors Target Potential Protesters, by the New York Times, 23 March 2011. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/chinese-censors-target-potential-protesters-20110322-1c585.html. Making a Difference for the Small and Medium Countries of the World, Speech to the Commonwealth Day Reception by the Hon Julia Gillard MP,
Prime Minister of Australia, 20 March 2011.
Available at: http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/making-difference-small-and-medium-countries-world-speech-african-union-permanent-repre Chris Bowen Unveils New Strategy on Multiculturalism, by Paul Maley and Amos Aikman, The Australian, 17 February
2011. Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/chris-bowen-unveils-new-strategy-on-multiculturalism/story-fn59niix-1226007226044. See also related media release by Chris
Bowen: New Strategy in Support of Multiculturalism in Australia, 16 February
2011. Available at: http://www.chrisbowen.net/media-centre/media-releases.do?newsId=4155. Leaders Are Right to Confront Failures of Multiculturalism, by Gerald Henderson, The
Sydney Morning Herald, 8 February 2011. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/leaders-are-right-to-confront-failures-of-multiculturalism-20110207-1ak39.html. Plea for Husband Swallowed by Chinese System, by Anne Davis, The Sydney
Morning Herald, 2 February 2011.
Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/plea-for-husband-swallowed-by-chinese-system-20110201-1ach5.html. Accused Spy One of 39 Australians Held in Chinese Jails, by Anne Davis and John Garnaut, The
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 2011.
Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/accused-spy-one-of-39-australians-held-in-chinese-jails-20110201-1ack7.html. Text of Tony Pun’s Australia Day Speech is
available at: http://www.accci.com.au/2011LarrikinAmbassador.pdf. Australia-Hong Kong Parliamentary Friendship Group
Relaunch, Hong Kong Monitor, No. 11, December 2010. Available at: http://www.hkmonitor.org.hk/hketo11_story5.html. Afghan Charges Stalled Hague War Crimes Case by Dan Oakes, The Sydney Morning Herald,
30 September 2010.
Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/afghan-charges-stalled-hague-war-crimes-case-20100929-15xik.html. Anger as Commandos Face
Manslaughter Charge, by
Dan Oakes and Rafael Epstein, The
Sydney Morning Herald, 28
September 2010. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/anger-as-commandos-face-manslaughter-charge-20100927-15u3o.html. . See also comment by Michael
C.H. Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/JonesCommentonNeilJames.pdf. Afghan Prisoners
Handcuffed, Blindfolded,
by Brendan Nicholson, The Australian,
27 September 2010.
Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/afghan-prisoners-handcuffed-blindfolded/story-e6frg6n6-1225929718245. See also comment by
Michael C H Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/JonesCommentonPOW.pdf. It's Right to
Write About Gitmo Stay, by Cynthia Banham, The Sydney
Morning Herald”, 24 September 2010.
Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/its-right-to-write-about-gitmo-stay-20100923-15oqj.html#poll. See also comment by Michael C.H. Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/JonesCommentonHicks.pdf. U.N. Struggles
to Prove Its Relevance, by Colum Lynch, The
Washington Post, 19 September 2010. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/19/AR2010091904173.html?wpisrc=xs_0005. The Psyche of the Chinese
Community in Australian Party Politics, by Anthony Pun and Daphne Lowe Kelly, paper
presented at the Chinese Australian Politics Colloquium, China and
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centres, University of Technology
Sydney, Wednesday 8 September 2020.
At: http://www.accci.com.au/Pun-KelleyPaper.doc. Nowhere to Hide: Ignoring Maher Arar Won’t Make His Torture Claims Go
Away, by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, 16 June 2010: http://www.slate.com/id/2257211/pagenum/all/#p2. See also the editorial published in The New York Times on the same day http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/opinion/16wed2.html
and commentary by Michael C H Jones http://www.accci.com.au/ArarComment.pdf. |
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At Spain’s Door, A Welcome Mat for Entrepreneurs, by Nick Leiber, The New York Times, 22 November
2014. The article describes incentives
to encourage start-up programs by foreigners in Spain (and Chile). Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/business/international/at-spains-door-a-welcome-mat-for-entrepreneurs-.html. How Google Works, reviewed
by Brad Stone, The New York Times, 7 November 2014.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/how-google-works-by-eric-schmidt-and-jonathan-rosenberg.html.
The author comments on the “good things” and the “not-so-good things” in the
book written by a former CEO and former vice president of products at Google. Where
Have All the Entrepreneurs Gone? By
Robert J Samuelson, The Washington Post.
6 August 2014. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-samuelson-where-have-all-the-entrepreneurs-gone/2014/08/06/e01e7246-1d7c-11e4-82f9-2cd6fa8da5c4_story.html. Samuelson provides a two-part article on
the decline of entrepreneurship in America as a result of an old, rigid and undynamic economy. Social Capital and
Entrepreneurial Activity: A Pseudo-Panel Approach, by Byung-Yeon
Kim and Youngho Kang, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Vol. 97 (2014),
pp. 47-60. Available for purchase at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268113002758. The authors determined that social capital,
including trust, social norms, and networks facilitates entrepreneurship. They also
concluded that parents’ emphasis on individual achievement relative to
interpersonal relations in raising their child is positively associated with
entrepreneurship. Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Does it
Pay?,
by Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein, NBER Working
Paper No. 19276, August 2013. Available
for purchase at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf?new_window=1. The two researchers report the following: The combination of “smarts” and
“aggressive/illicit/risk-taking” tendencies as a youth accounts for both
entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of
entrepreneurs. In contrast to a large
literature, we also find that entrepreneurs earn much more per hour than
their salaried counterparts. Tours of Duty, by
Reid Hoffman, Ban Casnocha and Chris Yeh, Harvard
Business Review, Vol. 91, No. 6 (June 2013), pp. 48-58. The article examines the way in which employer-employee
relationships changed since the early 1900s.
As globalisation and the information age created virtual and
international workplaces, the authors argue that the former job security
assured by an employees good work has been
destabilised and they suggest an alternative workplace arrangement. Available at: http://hbr.org/2013/06/tours-of-duty-the-new-employer-employee-compact/ar/1 How China’s Richest Man Made It, by Bloomberg News, The
Washington Post, 4 November 2012. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-chinas-richest-man-made-it/2012/11/03/39a02a88-23ad-11e2-ba29-238a6ac36a08_story.html. Japan’s New Tech
Generation,
by Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, 3 October 2012. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/technology/a-new-tech-generation-defies-the-odds-in-japan.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121004&_r=0 Obama’s Business Comment – OpEd, by Randall G
Holcombe, Erasia Review, http://www.eurasiareview.com/19072012-obamas-business-comment-oped/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29. Unleashing Government’s ‘Innovation Mojo’:
An Interview with the US Chief Technology Officer, by Eric Braverman and Michael Chui, McKinsey Quarterly, June 2012.
Available at: www.mckinseyquarterly.com/.
Registration is required for downloads. Leaders Behaving Badly, by James Adonis, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June
2011. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/blogs/work-in-progress/leaders-behaving-badly-20110617-1g6cf.html. Dealing with Isolation, by Tony Featherstone, The Sydney Morning Herald,
21 February 2011. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/blogs/the-venture/dealing-with-isolation/20110220-1b0pv.html. Aussie Geeks Win Big at Oscars, by Asher
Moses, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 2011. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/aussie-geeks-win-big-at-oscars-20110214-1at5e.html. Additional information
about Rising Sun Pictures is available at: http://www.rsp.com.au/contact.htm. Hong Kong Stays on Top of World Bank Business-Friendly
List, Hong
Kong Monitor, No. 11, December 2010.
Available at: http://www.hkmonitor.org.hk/hketo11_story4.html. Interesting
Question,
undated. Available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#Doelectricsheepdreamoff16%27s?. See also comment by Michael C H Jones at: http://www.accci.com.au/JonesCommentonAssange3.pdf. Are Entrepreneurs Born or Developed? by John Steen, PSnews. Available at: http://nsw.psnews.com.au/BooksFeaturesNSWpsn2055.html. |
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Links to analyses and
opinions about business ethics and corporate governance under
multiculturalism will appear in this space from time to time. Meanwhile, click below to visit the ACCCI
Ethics & Governance page for a broader coverage of the same issues. |
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