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Albanese’s COP27 no-show stirs old doubts on Australia’s resolve
Australia wants to host a UN climate summit and become a magnet for global green capital. But kitchen-table politics is winning out instead.
Jacob GreberSenior correspondentNext week, Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and newly minted far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will make the trip to the Egyptian beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for this year’s annual UN climate summit. Australia will send Pat Conroy.
The junior minister for defence industry and international development and the Pacific seems like a genuinely nice and hard-working bloke. But it’s a bit like deputising Chief Clancy Wiggum.
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