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Why Australia always cops it

We need to make new friends

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

The Climate Action Network branded Australia a ‘colossal fossil’ for its ‘appalling approach to climate change policy’ at Cop 26 in Glasgow.

Allies were scarcely more diplomatic. A Biden advisor said of Australia’s Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor, ‘I don’t know whether [he] is an idiot or an ideologue’.

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