In Australia, climate change is a political football, kicked about in the power game played in Canberra.

The latest accusations - which emerged on the website of the state secrets agency at the weekend - are likely to heighten tensions between Beijing and Canberra over their potential fate.

Myfanwy Evans of the Australian National University in Canberra, and colleagues, report their findings today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

THE controversial kangaroo cull at a Canberra Department of Defence site has ended with more than 500 of the animals killed.

In addition to Canberra, he will also visit Sydney and Brisbane, where he will meet leaders of the two states of New South Wales and Queensland.