Anthony Albanese has been caught in a crude exchange with Energy Minister Chris Bowen while discussing where they keep their phones during an overseas climate conference.
Speaking at the COP31 climate conference in Türkiye on Friday, the Prime Minister was filmed sitting alongside Mr Bowen during a break between delegations, when they wee caught in a bizarre exchange about where they place their mobile phones when not using them.
“Do you keep your phone here?” Mr Albanese asked the Energy Minister, placing his hand to the left breast pocket of his blazer jacket.
Mr Bowen then said: “Generally, yeah.”
Mr Albanese then told Mr Bowen to stop storing his phone in his pocket, situated over his heart, due to the dangers of emitting radiation, which has not been proven to damage healthy human tissue or cause organic heart disease.
But Mr Bowen said he wasn’t so concerned about keeping his phone in his blazer pocket.
Instead he said there was a more pressing region of the body that concerned him — his nether regions.
“I’m more conscious of — I stopped putting it in my pants pocket,” he said.
“Because of your d..k?” Mr Albanese asked with a laugh.
Mr Bowen laughed and agreed, saying: “Because of my d..k”.
“That’s rather important . . . arguably more important than the heart,” he said.
The pair then broke out into a laugh, unaware their crude conversation had been picked up by 7NEWS’ microphone and cameras.
