POLAR POLITICS: La romance fraustralienne: France, Australia form mutual admiration club while Antarctic station drowns in toxic trash

Daily Maverick braved bureaucratic frostbite to read the Antarctic Treaty’s 112,000-word annual meeting report, uncovering a code that only diplomats may be able to crack. Apparently, in Antarctica, one can abandon an area of hazardous waste equal to 45 football fields for decades while being ‘fully' compliant with the region’s environmental laws. Yup. We’ll explain.