Julie Bishop chided for 'joke' about rising seas flooding Marshall Islands
by Lenore Taylor in Paris from on (#WQTF)
Australia still has not learned not to make jokes about the impacts of climate change on its low-lying neighbours, Marshall Islands minister says at Paris talks
Australia still hasn't learned not to make jokes about low-lying islands and climate change, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands has said, referring to foreign minister Julie Bishop's mocking comments last week about claims that one of the Marshall Islands was already submerged.
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