Morrison jets off to see Trump

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison Source: AAP Image/ Mick Tsikas

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.

Instead, he’ll be meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump and the two will visit the Australian-owned Pratt Industries cardboard manufacturing plant together in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

“Scott Morrison knows that at this summit world leaders are being asked to more aggressively cut pollution, and to start to reign in coal, and Scott Morrison obviously doesn't want to do that, he'd prefer to hang out with Donald Trump instead”, Greens MP Adam Bandt told SBS News.

“I think it's a combination of cowardice and contempt.”

Greens leader Adam Bandt Source: AAP

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