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Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott shares a laugh with traders at the Sydney market at Flemington on Wednesday.儲存倉 The election campaign in Australia is at its peak ahead of Saturday’s poll.By AGENCIES in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia Only after our regional and trading partners have been suitably attended to would I make the traditional trips to Washington and London.”TONY ABBOTT CONSERVATIVE COALITION CANDIDATE IN THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTION Australian election front- runner Tony Abbott vowed on Wednesday that Asia will be his main foreign policy focus if he assumes oi ce, as an inl u- ential media group turned on incumbent Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.The conservative Abbott, whose diplomatic credentials came under i re this week at er he said the Syria conl ict was “baddies versus baddies”, is on track to win Saturday’s poll.His first travel priorities would be Indonesia, China, Japan and South Korea, he said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, the l agship paper of Fairfax Media whose chairman on Wednes- day declared his support for the conservative.“Only at er our regional and trading partners have been suit- ably attended to would I make the traditional trips to Washing- ton and London,” Abbott said, adding, “in the end your focus has got to be on the relationships that need the most attention.“Decisions which impact our national interests will be made in Jakarta, in Beijing, in Tokyo, in Seoul, as much as they will be made in Washington.“h ere’s a sense in which we kind of know what the decisions in Washington or London will be. We can be less certain about decisions that might be made in Jakarta and Beijing.”Abbott said his first trip would be to Indonesia, where most boats bringing asylum- seekers to Australia — a key election issue — originate.“By virtue of its size, proxim- ity, its developing power, overall it’s the most important country to Australia,” he said.Rudd, a former for迷你倉價錢ign min- ister, said the simplistic language trivialized the matter and dem- onstrated “that he is not compe- tent and not comfortable with national security and foreign policy”. Nonetheless it appears that Abbott is destined for high oi ce with recent opinion polls putting his conservative coalition comfortably ahead of Labor.Rudd’s task of hanging onto power has been made harder by the dominant media group, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, running a campaign against him, and Fairfax, the other major player, appeared to join their rival on Wednesday.In an interview with broad- caster ABC, Fairfax Chairman Roger Corbett accused Rudd, who ousted Julia Gillard in a party room coup in June, of destabilizing and damaging Labor.“In my view, Kevin Rudd is a leader that has been really dis- credited by his own conduct,”he said, adding that Abbott was “a very sincere, nice type of human being”.AFP—XINHUA NETWORKS REFUSE ELECTION AD Australia’s com- mercial television net- works are refusing to run an advertisement that accuses Rupert Murdoch of printing “misleading crap” in his newspapers ahead of national elections, the activist group behind the ad said on Wednesday.The Australian-born Murdoch, now a US citizen, owns large- circulation newspapers in his former homeland.His Sydney tabloid, The Daily Telegraph, has called for voters to “kick out” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor gov- ernment in Saturday’spolls. “It was great when you could pick up the paper and get ... well ...news,” says the man in the ad by activist group GetUp as he stands on his front lawn to collect his newspaper, later using it to scoop up his dog’s droppings.“Don’t let the crap decide your vote. Stand up for what you want.Tell Rupert, ‘We’ll choose our own government.’”The GetUp is com- plaining to the competi- tion watchdog after three major commercial networks refused to air the video, which has been viewed more than 340,000 times on You- Tube.AFP迷你倉