Colin Teese, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, examines the agenda of the World Economic Forum which will meet this month in Melbourne and discovers that, even for conclaves such as the WEF, reality is beginning to bite.T he World Economic Forum begins its meeting in Australia on September 11 wrapped in a cloak of controversy and facing the prospect of concerted efforts to disrupt its proceedings (see page 5).There is a certain irony attached to the disruption of its work by a…
