Prime Minister Julia Gillard will address cybersecurity in talks
with Chinese leaders when she visits the country in April.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr told a Sydney Institute audience on
Friday that Canberra was also pushing for regular high-level
consultations with Beijing.  Senator Carr revealed Ms Gillard
had already approached outgoing president Hu Jintao to establish
regular, senior consultations between both countries.  "We're
hoping that once the Chinese leadership transition is complete
in March, the leadership can give some attention to it," Senator
Carr said.  "We see that as desirable and as one measure of the
interdependency we both enjoy and the opportunities for enhanced
co-operation we are both reaching for."  Ms Gillard is due to
attend the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan province soon after Xi
Jinping is confirmed as the Asian economic giant's new
president.  It will be the prime minister's second visit to
China, having first visited there as leader in April 2011.  Last
year the Australian gove