Evening News: As Morrison jets off to see Trump, other world leaders prepare for climate crisis talks

Smoke is discharged from chimneys at a coal-fired power plant

Source: AAP

On Thursday, Scott Morrison departs for the first official visit to the US by an Australian prime minister in 13 years. But skipping a key climate summit isn’t a good look, his critics say.


Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of “cowardice and contempt” for choosing to skip a high-level climate change summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, being in the US at the time.

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