The Australian prime minister says the new US president did not press him to adopt a more ambitious emissions commitment
In the Trump era, journalists didn’t have to speculate about what a US president said to an Australian prime minister during a private phone call. Famously, the entire transcript of a fraught conversation between Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull in 2017 was leaked.
But in more sedate times, leaders provide their own readouts.
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