A hot mic has captured a bizarre exchange between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen during COP31 proceedings.
While taking a sip of water and preparing for the next event at the climate summit, the two men were filmed sharing a light-hearted moment.
In a video posted online by 7News, the men can be seen putting their phones away.
Mr Albanese then takes umbridge with Mr Bowen slipping his device into his breast pocket.
Gesturing towards his chest, Mr Albanese asks, “do you keep your phone there?”, to which Mr Bowen replies, “generally, yeah.”
The Prime Minister then warns Mr Bowen against it, before the exchange takes an unexpected turn.
Mr Bowen explained why he prefers keeping his phone near his chest, leaning in to speak quietly.
“I’m more conscious of – I stopped putting it in my pants pocket,” he said.
Mr Albanese asked, “because of your d**k?”, to which Mr Bowen replied, “because of my d**k.”
“That’s rather important,” Mr Bowen said.
“Arguably more important than the heart.”
The rare moment of levity comes as Albanese is under pressure regarding his “waste” of taxpayer’s money on the COP31 trip.
The extreme expenditure on the trip includes more than $30,000 spent on Turkish coffee.
The Prime Minister has also come under fire for having a delegation of almost 200 people at the conference, all on the taxpayers’ dime.