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It does,\\xa0on the surface,\\xa0seem odd that Jacinda\\xa0"nuclear moment\\u201d Ardern is not front and centre in Egypt saving the world at\\xa0COP27.

And\\xa0yet if you think about it, it isn\'t.

What Ardern is,\\xa0and more and more have realised it, is all\\xa0talk. As we discovered last week,\\xa0with the court victim programmes that were announced by her with great fanfare, but\\xa0when they turned out to be duds,\\xa0she was taking no accountability for them whatsoever.

That is who she is and how she operates. Taking\\xa0about the climate is the modern cool thing to do, but doing things about it? Not so much.

Do not forget she has never been to a\\xa0COP,\\xa0not one. Her\\xa0office,\\xa0by way of excuse,\\xa0suggested it\'s not normal for leaders to attend regularly. That,\\xa0of course,\\xa0is simply not true.

But fortunately the government\\xa0operates in a media environment where most of the more outrageous things they say aren\'t actually checked or called out.

You\\xa0also have this issue, Anthony Albanese isn\'t going either. Why?\\xa0Because he is called\\xa0"Airbus\\xa0Albo." He,\\xa0like\\xa0Ardern,\\xa0has spent too much of his time out of the country.

Ardern\'s\\xa0trip to Antarctic got more opprobrium than it did coverage. The\\xa0hypocrisy of the carbon miles to go down, turn back, go down again ,stand looking at Shackleton\'s\\xa0shed,\\xa0for many of us was yet another example of a\\xa0Prime\\xa0Minister who is really interested in photo opportunities and not a lot more.

The\\xa0cynicism that has grown around her travel schedule has now reached a point where clearly they have worked out any more air miles is simply not palatable and the closer it gets to election time the worse it will become.

Although I\\xa0have never had a problem with a leader travelling,\\xa0what we have seen\\xa0from Ardern,\\xa0as usual, is\\xa0more noise than delivery. Telling the world we are open is fine,\\xa0but it\'s\\xa0clearly led to very little. The arrival numbers are a fraction of what they were and\\xa0I\\xa0suspect what they were hoping for.

So\\xa0the climate,\\xa0for now,\\xa0will have to wait\\xa0because a cost of living crisis and votes,\\xa0trumps another soiree where little,\\xa0if anything,\\xa0gets done.

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