Deputy Liberal party leader will not apologise for comment about island lost to rising sea levels,saying it was in response to Labor minister’s ‘blunder’Julie Bishop thinks she has no cause to apologise for recent comments mocking claims that one of the Marshall Islands was already under water because her remarks were based on a “shocking blunder” by her opposite number, Tanya Plibersek.
Asked whether she would be apologising to the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, or Tony de Brum,when they encountered one another at the Paris climate conference, Bishop said she wanted to “salvage some facts straight” – including that she is not Plibersek’s “subeditor”.
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Source: theguardian.com