Friday, 23 April 2021, 2:58 pm
He seemed frustrated. While Scott Morrison’s
international colleagues at the Leaders
Summit on Climate were boastful in what their countries
would do in decarbonising the global economy, Australia’s
feeble contribution was put on offer. Unable to meet his own
vaccination targets, the Australian prime minister has
decided to confine the word “target” in other areas of
policy to oblivion. Just as the term “climate change”
has been avoided in the bowels of Canberra bureaucracy,
meeting environmental objectives set in stone will be
shunned.
Ahead of the summit, Nobel Prize laureates
had added their names to a letter