Morning mail: Morrison rejects climate ‘false deadlines’, mass internet outage, Macron slapped
Wednesday: PM to address climate commitments and China tensions in key foreign policy speech ahead of G7 summit. Plus: finding fossils along Australia's dinosaur trail
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Scott Morrison is resisting international pressure to lock in more ambitious climate commitments, declaring Australia opposes setting targets for certain parts of the economy or false deadlines for phasing out specific energy sources". Before he sets off for the G7 summit in the UK later this week, the prime minister will use a foreign policy speech in Perth today to say that ambition alone won't solve the problem of actually reducing emissions". Morrison is also expected to address tensions with China, saying Australia is far from isolated" despite Beijing rolling out a series of trade actions against Australian export sectors over the past year.
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