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Asia-Pacific to ‘increase pressure’ on Morrison over climate change

Image: Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, via Facebook

Australian government must urgently improve its regional reputation on climate policy, say academics

Australia’s bushfire crisis is “a major global disaster” that has policy and trade implications for its future relations with its Asia-Pacific neighbours, according to leading academics at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The group says prime minister Scott Morrison’s conservative coalition government “has squibbed the big strategic choices the changing times demand” in climate change and energy policies. As a result, it is losing respect, particularly among Pacific Islands nations.

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