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Turkey will host the Cop31 climate conference after the Albanese government dropped its years-long campaign to hold the event in Adelaide – much to the frustration of neighbouring Papua New Guinea.
“It would be great if Australia could have it all, but we can’t have it all,” said the climate minister, Chris Bowen, who is expected to be president of negotiations in Antalya.
Anthony Albanese has hailed it as an “outstanding” outcome; the Greens called it “embarrassing”. South Australia’s premier, Peter Malinauskas, meanwhile, described the process as “frankly obscene”.
Meanwhile, the Ashes start tomorrow in Perth – here’s what you need to know ahead of the series opener, in which two Australians will debut.
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Indonesia’s Mount Semeru, the highest peak on Java island, has erupted, blanketing several villages with falling ash, prompting evacuations and leading authorities to raise the alert to the highest level.
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“I’ve tried to justify it in many different ways, trying to find any indication that it was an honest mistake. But when I add in the many other times at the club when we were left feeling a similar way, it was hard to see it as merely a simple error.” Mary Fowler
The Matildas star has claimed she experienced racism while at Montpellier in 2022 when she was given bananas while others in the squad received flowers at the end of her final season with the French club.
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The Coalition’s climate shift: what’s at risk for Australia?
The Coalition has abandoned a net zero target and announced its new energy policy. Climate and environment editor Adam Morton and Reged Ahmad factcheck its claims and discuss why dropping net zero is dragging the country backwards in the battle against climate change.
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“Quiet, piggy,” Donald Trump told a female reporter in a press gaggle on Air Force One last Friday, pointing at her. As midwest correspondent Rachel Leingang writes, the clip has taken off, and the insult is stoking more outrage than usual – suggesting, perhaps, that the US president could be “losing his air of impenetrability”.
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