How Australia took centre stage at the world’s hydrogen jamboree

Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent

May 11, 2022 – 11.30am

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At the sole restaurant in the huge Rotterdam conference centre where the World Hydrogen Summit took place this week, I ordered a flat white from a Dutch waitress.

“What is a flat white? I don’t even know. People keep asking for it,” she said exasperatedly.

Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London.