Hanson MIA amid resurfaced 'racist' comments + The $855bn cost of rising seas
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What are the main Tuesday headlines and why are they important?
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Hey it's Chris Beery with you. Welcome to the briefing. The physical impacts of rising sea levels are well documented in Australia, but for the first time someone stopped to think about just how much it'll cost us financially.
We feel that $855 billion, so you know, approaching a trillion dollars in cost to Australia by the end of the century is fairly conservative.
A chat about the price tag from climate change's impacts on our oceans is in the second half of this episode. First though, let's get into the headlines with Sasha Barbagat. It's Tuesday, September the 15th.
Hey Chris, One Nation has vowed to put the will of Australians over the warnings of experts after unveiling its migration policy and copping criticism that it would devastate the economy. Pauline Hansen posted a social media video yesterday revealing her party's plan to slash the number of migrants by 750,000 over three years, with a particular focus on international students and family members of skilled migrants. The policy would include the forcible removal of non-visa holders, penalties for businesses that employ illegal workers, and lifetime bans on entering Australia for overstayers.
Experts have been quick to condemn the policy on a number of fronts, including economists, universities, the aged care sector, and business groups who say the plan would be disastrous and could push the country to recession.
As an act of public policy, if you're gonna take seven hundred and fifty thousand people. Okay. So again, seven hundred and sixty-six thousand people out of the Australian economy and society for three years.
You have you have tanked the Australian economy. Economist George Megalogenis on the ABC there. You also heard Barnaby Joyce, One Nation's Treasury spokesperson, speaking. He was undeterred by the swift condemnation of the policy by experts, Labour, and the coalition, saying Australians are tired of hearing from economists.
This has to be dealt with. We will deal with No matter the cost, no matter what. We will d we will deal with it and it is our policy and we go forward with it. Are you worried about what the Parliamentary Budget Office is doing? No, I'm not really because um they're not elected, I am.
It just really is reminding me of Trump politics in a big, big way, where it's like, nope, sorry, that's just what I think. Uh so it seems like we are with Hearing more from One Nation and uh it's actually coming forward on policies and then being challenged on those policies. It doesn't want to answer the questions, it just wants to say no, no, no. Uh so I guess we can expect to hear more of that. And look, while we're speaking of Joyce, he was the one to front the media and journalists' questions yesterday, with Pauline Hansen, noticeably MIA. Now, the One Nation leader also didn't attend the Senate, with many speculating. It's due to the current pressure on her to apologize over a number of recent missteps, including calling the coalition's Andrew Hasty a traitor and insulting the memory of the Prime Minister's dead mum.
But yesterday another previous podcast appearance of hers was resurfaced, during which she labeled Australia's Indigenous people the most primitive race on earth. The comments made a year ago on the Little Known JJ podcast have drawn blistering condemnation for the Senator, once again from across the political divide.
It's totally outrageous, completely racist, uh, but also divides our country in a way that we do not want to see happen right here in Australia. Senator Hanson purports to represent the people of Queensland, I'd like to remind her that that means First Nations people.
While Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampajimpa Price posted a scathing rebuke of Hansen, accusing her of willful ignorance and saying that she dragged the issue into appalling territory. Now, Price has been considered a possible defector to One Nation, so interesting to see her coming out so strongly against Hansen. But while she was nowhere to be seen yesterday, she did post on X a couple of times and
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