Sam Emery: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's trip to Papua New Guinea

Australia and Papua New Guinea will agree to defend each other in the event of a military attack as part of a new defence agreement set to be signed.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is currently in Papua New Guinea to commemorate the country's independence anniversary.

Australian correspondent Sam Emery says the defence agreement is designed to protect both nations from security threats, which remain a consistent concern.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Australia correspondent sam I Marie is with us today.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, samyd Hey Heather.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, So what's going on with the P ANDNG pet Yeah,
elbows in.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
P and G to the fiftieth Independent Celebrations and the
centerpiece was sent to be this wonderful signing of a
landmark defense treaty that's now been pushed back to tomorrow
after reports that the last minute legal details weren't quite finalized. Importantly,
this treaty goes further than ever before, Heather. It contains
a mutual defense course, which means that two nations would

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consult and stand together, sorry stands together if they faced
the security threat, which is obviously a big thing of
where he served on with China and all these books
of things going on the show of neighborhood friendliness designed
to modernized P andng's military and deep and it's already
close that stop and strained ties with it in part

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to counter that growing influences China in the Pacific, includes
joint training, said resources, even the possibility of P and g'
citizens serving in Australia in there who are serving in
this military with a pathway to Pizen's gifts. So not
everyone's on board though had come in P and D,
including form of military leaders are saying the treaty could
undermine the nation's sovereignty and drag them into conflicts they

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don't want. So it's still not across the line at Carralbo,
but it's certainly a steps in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Now, how seriously you guys taking this report that says
none of you are say from climate impacts.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, I think most Australians are already on board with this.
I think Australian's voters are well and truly, you know,
aware of the risk that climate faces. This report that's
just come in, they're saying it's the first national climate
Risk assessment, but it's the first of this scope and status,
and there are all reports are saying that it's sobering breeds.

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By the end of the century, over three million Australians
would place regular coastal flooding, while heat related deaths lie
way over four hundred percent. The report says risks will
cascade across health, housing, agriculture, infrastructure, with farmers especially most vulnerable,
which is nothing new for farmers obviously, but that's what

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makes it to the climate debate so difficult in policy
now we're all affected by the climate and the environment
so differently. Here in Australia, those Labor prepares their twenty
thirty five emission target amountains, the optics are already scrambled.
Colist MPs are threatening to quit Overnet zero commitment, while
the government itself is still approving these huge long term

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gas protects, this huge environmental impact. The critics describing this
yo yo like political discourse as stainful given the urgency
of these warnings Heeather. But also, you know, while Labor's
sort of attempting this balancing act, the politicians for on
the topic is still looming large. Obviously, they're coming off
the back of their worst election resulting history and they've

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lost a huge, younger, climate focused voter base that seals
in the green So it'll be interesting to see how
they may want to change packed on this. But at
the moment, given the fact that they've all come out
saying that they're going to quit, it's not looking like
anything changing, So we insted to see how this all
tans out, all.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Right, Sam, Thanks very much. Sam Emory Australia corresponded, by
the way, sorry about the quality of the line. He
is not as you might expect MP ANDNG but actually
in Australia something's happened, just on the politics of it.
Andrew Hasty is the latest and most hope high profile
the MP to say he will quit the shadow front
bench if the Liberals remain committed to a net zero
by twenty to fifty policy. There's a whole bunch of

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them now in the coalition, but yeah, he's part of
a growing number now speaking out against net zero. He
has previously described net zero as moral hypocrisy and a scam, which,
by the way, it is. For more from Hither, DUP
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