Nightlife News Breakdown - Quentin Dempster - Former ABC Presenter
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Nightlife News Breakdown - Quentin Dempster - Former ABC Presenter

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202621 min
  • Politics

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Quentin Dempster AM, award winning journalist, author and former host of ABC’s Stateline.

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Well Prime Minister Anthony Albanese along with Climate Minister Chris Bower are in Fiji

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Nightlife, news breakdown. Well Prime Minister Anthony Albanese along with Climate Minister Chris Bower are in Fiji for what's called pre-cop three.

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It's four days of climate meetings in preparation for the main conference of the parties or cop meeting in Turkey, in Turkey next month. Now Australia is co-hosting a four-day event with Fiji and Tuvalu as a result of an agreement with Tukia ahead of the main conference.

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The event is being seen as a way of highlighting the Pacific region's particular challenges as a result of climate change. Well the PM emphasises the Pacific is on the front line of climate change and he's in Fiji to make sure that Pacific voices are heard he says on the global stage.

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