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"The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has blasted the opposition
leader, Peter Dutton, for trying to “score a cheap domestic political point”
after the Liberal leader used the opening day of the Cop27 UN climate summit to
demand Australia not compensate other countries for accumulating climate
disasters.
After António Guterres opened the climate conference in Egypt with a stark
warning that countries could either sign “a climate solidarity pact, or a
collective suicide pact”, Dutton used the first parliamentary question on
Tuesday to demand Albanese “rule out signing Australia up to compensating other
countries as part of the deal being negotiated at Cop27 in Egypt”.
Albanese then rounded on the opposition leader, reviving a diplomatic disaster
from 2015 where Dutton appeared to joke about rising sea levels in the Pacific.
“One of the things I won’t do, is, in front of a boom microphone, make a joke
about our island neighbours drowning,” Australia’s prime minister said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
