Aus PM Kevin Rudd made an announcement that he'll push for Asian countries to end to petrol subsidies. Right, easy for him to talk. He's not a working class Asian citizen in a country that doesn't have minimum wage or executes CPI adjustments across the board, then has to pay the equivalent to US$ currency conversion for petrol.

I think he's just lost his favour rating with the Asians, especially Malaysians at this point in time.