Labor’s Penny Wong says PM should ‘pick up the phone’ to US president and Mike Pompeo warns Victoria over cooperation in China’s Belt and Road project Labor has called on Scott Morrison to pick up the phone to Donald Trump to pursue concerns the US president’s trade deal with China …
Read More »Jacinda Ardern lashes Scott Morrison for ‘testing’ friendship over deportations to New Zealand
New Zealand PM says Australia is deporting’ your people and your problems’ using unfair policies The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has flogged Scott Morrison for “testing” the friendship between the two nations, accusing Australia of evicting “your people and your problems” using “unfair” policies. Ardern took her strongest …
Read More »Australia fires live: one dead in NSW and six missing in Victoria in Australian bushfires – latest updates
NSW RFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says he was frustrated to learn of ADF deployment from the media. Follow all today’s live report and latest updates 12.33 am GMT Doesn’t look like we have an Auslan interpreter at this news conference. The government should probably start considering that. 12.32 am GMT …
Read More »Australia fires: NSW devastation laid bare as 72 homes destroyed in SA bushfires
Australian PM Scott Morrison says government won’t change its climate change policy as New South Wales premier says’ not much left’ of town of Balmoral The devastation from Australia’s bushfire crisis became clearer on Sunday, as the South Australian premier said 72 homes had been destroyed and his New South …
Read More »Jacinda Ardern says Australia has to ‘answer to Pacific’ on climate change
New Zealand prime minister alerts Scott Morrison about Canberra’s stance but refuses to call for Australia to transition out of coal Jacinda Ardern has declared that “Australia has to answer to the Pacific” on climate change, saying that New Zealand is doing what it can to limit global emissions to …
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