The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the Outlook for Australia's Trade and CompetitivenessThe Australian APEC Centre at RMIT University presented a conference in Melbourne bringing eminent Australian and international experts and commentators as well as leading business figures together to review the drivers of Australian trade and investment and the external environment. The Hon. Dr Craig Emerson, Australia Minister for Trade, delivered the 2011 APEC Lecture at the end of the conference on issues and outcomes of the 2011 APEC Summit in the USA.