Stabbing an ally in the back

After so injudiciously ratifying the Paris climate agreement on the very day Donald Trump won the election, the Turnbull government may have redeemed themselves in the eyes of the new administration.

This was in an Abbott-style declaration that if Australia were still on the Security Council, we would have opposed the Christmas-Hanukah Resolution condemning Israel’s West Bank settlements, including those in East Jerusalem, as if Judaism’s holiest places had never existed.