'Australia is a Pacific island - it has a responsibility'

By Nick O'Malley
Updated September 21 2014 - 6:13pm, first published 3:14pm

New York: Before it became dominated by the United States' effort to build a coalition for war with Islamic State, this week's General Assembly of the United Nations was to have focused on climate change.

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