{"id":963169,"date":"2026-11-13T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963169\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:12:15","slug":"because-of-your-d-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-and-energy-minister-chris-bowens-bizarre-cop31-chat-about-their-phones-and-nether-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963169\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Because of your d***?\u2019: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s bizarre COP31 chat about their phones and nether regions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hot mic has captured a bizarre exchange between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen during COP31 proceedings.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In a video posted online by 7News, the men can be seen putting their phones away.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese then takes umbridge with Mr Bowen slipping his device into his breast pocket.<\/p>\n

Gesturing towards his chest, Mr Albanese asks, \u201cdo you keep your phone there?\u201d, to which Mr Bowen replies, \u201cgenerally, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister then warns Mr Bowen against it, before the exchange takes an unexpected turn.<\/p>\n

Mr Bowen explained why he prefers keeping his phone near his chest, leaning in to speak quietly.<\/p>\n

“I’m more conscious of \u2013 I stopped putting it in my pants pocket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese asked, “because of your d**k?”, to which Mr Bowen replied, “because of my d**k.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s rather important,” Mr Bowen said.<\/p>\n

“Arguably more important than the heart.”<\/p>\n

The rare moment of levity comes as Albanese is under pressure regarding his \u201cwaste\u201d of taxpayer\u2019s money on the COP31 trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The extreme expenditure on the trip includes more than $30,000 spent on Turkish coffee.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister has also come under fire for having a delegation of almost 200 people at the conference<\/a>, all on the taxpayers\u2019 dime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hot mic has captured a bizarre exchange between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[521420,72756,216455,530856,382309,530875,530878,530855,518224,376594,8932,530857,530858,409713,2324,530873,530864,28486,27548,27069,530869,500221,273857,7770,43,530860,530870,451680,530872,390279,386100,530871,3977,382982,297851,286451,530865,530862,211638,44,20246,1655,74732,138105,530861,392125,530867,393994,530863,379036,380433,393963,270070,530876,441638,378587,382354,530859,530868,41,39,42,40,530874,530854,11814,530877,530866,378052],"class_list":["post-963169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-s-money","tag-72756","tag-7news","tag-7news-gesturing","tag-a-bizarre-exchange","tag-a-delegation","tag-a-hot-mic","tag-a-light-hearted-moment","tag-a-sip","tag-a-video","tag-albanese","tag-albanese-and-bowen","tag-almost-200-people","tag-an-unexpected-turn","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-bizarre-cop31-chat","tag-bizarre-exchange","tag-chris-bowen","tag-climate-conference","tag-cop31","tag-cop31-proceedings","tag-dime","tag-energy-minister-chris-bowen","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-his-waste","tag-his-breast-pocket","tag-his-chest","tag-his-device","tag-his-phone","tag-hot-mic","tag-levity","tag-mobile-phones","tag-more-than-30","tag-mr-albanese","tag-mr-bowen","tag-my-dk","tag-my-pants-pocket","tag-nether-regions","tag-news","tag-picture","tag-pressure","tag-prime-minister-anthony-albanese","tag-taxpayer","tag-the-climate-summit","tag-the-conference","tag-the-cop31-trip","tag-the-exchange","tag-the-extreme-expenditure","tag-the-heart","tag-the-men","tag-the-next-event","tag-the-prime-minister","tag-the-rare-moment","tag-the-taxpayers","tag-the-trip","tag-the-two-men","tag-their-genitals-and","tag-their-phones","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkish-coffee","tag-umbridge","tag-water","tag-your-d","tag-your-dk","tag-your-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}