Another double-shot latte from the Australian free coffee cart at Antalya, Turkey, please.
It could actually have been worse. Anthony Albanese wouldn’t have chosen to be among the crowds flooding a Turkish resort town for a major international conference on climate change when his government is under such pressure at home. But the prime minister would have been even more uncomfortable presiding over the event in Adelaide instead. Labor had initially fought hard to make Australia the host of COP 31, seeing it as a potential coup in promoting its climate change credentials.
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