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The Guardian - AU
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Katharine Murphy and Tory Shepherd

Chris Bowen calls on News Corp to sack Andrew Bolt for column saying Australians sick of ‘kowtowing to the primitive’

Chris Bowen and Andrew Bolt
Climate change minister Chris Bowen has called for the sacking of Andrew Bolt after the News Corp columnist responded to his Cop28 speech by suggesting Australians are ‘sick of kowtowing to the primitive’. Composite: AAP

Chris Bowen has called on News Corp to sack Andrew Bolt after the controversial commentator penned a column suggesting Australians are “sick of kowtowing to the primitive”.

Bolt on Wednesday criticised the climate change minister for staging what he contended was “a one-man clown show at the United Nations’ global warming jamboree in Dubai” which included a “sermon” linking “the government’s disastrous race-based tribalism with its ruinous crusade against oil and gas”.

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