The Australian prime minister’s use of traditional skills – and free flat whites – has brought success in Turkey. But his country’s fossil fuel industry and its culture wars remain a problem
Being cynical comes easy at a UN climate summit, but there was a faint glimmer of something else on the face of the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese. Pride.
Standing to face journalists at his only press conference here at Cop31 in Antalya on Thursday, Albanese was flanked by seven leaders from the Pacific. He said he was privileged to be standing with them and proud of what Australia was doing to help them access funding to deal with the climate crisis.