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This week on The Views Room, Australia's climate policy could be a damp squid.

Meanwhile, Netflix Squid Games is anything but. Have a listen.

Hello and welcome to the Viewroom,, the weekly podcast from Reuters Breaking Views, the financial opinion and commentary team at Thompson Reuters.

I'm Katrina Hamlin, Breaking View's Global Production Editor in Hong Kong, and this week I will

be talking to my colleague Anthony Down Under to learn about Australia's lackluster climate policy.

As Anthony tells us, there has been progress, but there's also considerable room for improvement if Prime Minister Scott Morrison is to avoid accusations of greenwashing.

Then we turn to our global editor Rob Cox and columnist Jen Sava,

who take a break from watching Squid Games to explain why the blockbuster Shea matters to Netflix.

I'm Katrina Hamlin in Hong Kong and I am speaking with Anthony Curry in Melbourne.

Anthony, you've been writing lots about Australia and its climate policy or lack

thereof. Would you like to tell us what's the latest news on this? Because it has been changing,

right? The climate is changing for climate change in Australia. Ho, ho, ho. I know I should go on stage

with all these jokes. So there's been a few things happening actually down here, all sort of seemingly and wonderfully

coalescing around the fact that we've got the COP 26, UN climate meeting, starting in

Glasgow at the end of the month.

So a few things.

Let's just go through the list very quickly.

First of all, a few weeks ago in September, the central bank came out with a report looking

at what may happen to Australia's main exports like iron ore and coal and

gas if and when people get towards net zero and reducing emissions. Scott Frydenberg, who is the

treasurer down here, the finance minister, I then gave a speech earlier this month saying,

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