☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day eleven cont: 🌊💨🌀🌡️</p><p>The <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> have a candidate problem continued… </p><p>“Speaking at a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> conference in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sydney</span></a> on Wednesday, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SurangelWhipps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurangelWhipps</span></a> Jr described seeing two-thirds of an island in his archipelago country disappear under water in his lifetime. “For those of us in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pacific</span></a> who have lived through storm surges, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/rising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rising</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> levels and increasingly high tides, the phrase ‘water lapping at our door’ is not a metaphor or a punchline. It’s our fear and reality,” he said.</p><p>The comment was an apparent reference to a 2015 incident in which <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PeterDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterDutton</span></a>, while <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ImmigrationMinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrationMinister</span></a>, was overheard on a hot mic joking with then-prime minister <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TonyAbbott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyAbbott</span></a> (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/dickhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dickhead</span></a>) about delays during a visit to Papua New Guinea (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNG</span></a>) , saying “time doesn’t mean anything when you’re about to have water lapping at your door”. </p><p>Rules are applied only when needed.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tact</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Machiavellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Machiavellian</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/09/palau-president-australia-cop-31-climate-summit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/apr</span><span class="invisible">/09/palau-president-australia-cop-31-climate-summit</span></a>></p>