Australia has lost to the Turks.

We won’t add “again” or mention Gallipoli. Naturally.

But it’s incumbent on us, for the purposes of accuracy, to point out that if Australia hadn’t bowed to the Turks, the Germans would have won the whole show.

We are talking about COP31, of course.

Should you be averse to snappy acronyms, COP31 is (deep breath, try not to expel too much carbon dioxide) the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Australia had expected to hold this peak hot-air festival in Adelaide in November next year, and spent years and large amounts of cash marshalling international support.

But Turkey dug in, insisting it should host COP31 at its coastal resort city of Antalya.

Australia, of course, learned long ago – 110 yea

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