Anthony Albanese has defended the King’s stance on calling for climate action as independent of politics, after a meeting between the two he described as “very warm and friendly”.

“It’s important that the sovereign stay distant from party political issues,” the Prime Minister told BBC News.

“But from my perspective, I’d be very comfortable with the King expressing views about the importance of climate change. It is about the very survival of our way of life.”

“We know that in Australia, the impacts of bushfires, floods, and natural disasters are doing exactly what the science told us would happen, which is that there have always been natural disasters in Australia, but they’re more frequent, and they’re more intense.”
That’s why this issue shouldn’t be a partisan political issue, it should be an issue which the world needs to confront.”