Trump ‘chickens out’ again + Elon’s road to $1,000,000,000,000
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A Listener Production. Hey, Sasha Barber Gatt with you. Welcome to The Briefing. Elon Musk is likely to become the world's first trillionaire in the next few days. There's no denying it. That sort of money is impossible to wrap your head around. So what does this new era in the world's wealth mean?
The kind of wealth we're talking about is basically infinite and it gives him an enormous amount of power, an enormous amount of influence. I mean, his wealth is bigger than most countries.
What recent political donations did Pauline Hanson discuss?
And, you know, whether or not that's going to be a good thing for humanity, I think most people would say no.
That chat is coming up in the second half of this episode. But first, it's time for the headlines with Chris Spirou on Friday the 12th of June.
Morning, Sash. Happy Friday to everyone listening. We are starting with Aussie politics, and Pauline Hanson says the more than $2.5 million her party has raised this week to get Anthony Albanese out of government is legit, and that she's got the receipts to prove it. It comes after several politicians, including the Prime Minister, cast doubt on the veracity of the donation sum on One Nation's Fire the Liar fundraising page, which yesterday morning surpassed $1 million.
Did she though? Did she? What evidence is there? It is an example of slogans being put forward and not substance.
The One Nation leader was quick to fire back yesterday.
Why would I call out the liar, fire the liar, then go and do something like that myself?
Hanson later took to socials posting what she said was an independent audit document proving the site and the money is, quote, ridgy-didge. As to what she's going to do with it, she's promising to use the money to go after Labor seats held by high-profile ministers like Chris Bowen and Tony Burke. Just want to quickly mention where those seats are and the significance around those seats. So, Tony Burke represents the Federal Electorate of Watson in Sydney, which covers Bankstown, Punchbowl and Lakemba, among other suburbs. Now, that is an extremely high migrant population in those suburbs. Chris Bowen as well, his seat is McMahon, which is in a similar kind of area of southwest Sydney covering Fairfield, Smithfield, Wetherill Park and other suburbs.
Again, very high immigrant population in those seats. So, I don't see how Pauline is going to sell her message of, you know, One Nation's typical anti-immigration stance to the people of those particular electorates.
Yeah, it's interesting because she claims that people in those electorates are very much interested in the message of her party. And I can say there are certain second-generation or third-generation migrants who do find merit in her message. They see this idea of... And it's hard to explain in a headline, but her idea around quote unquote assimilation, this idea of coming to the country and trying to do your best to integrate and do all that is a message that a lot of these second and third generation migrants agree with because they've seen their grandparents or their parents do the exact same thing. And they say, well, if my grandparents and parents had to do it, why shouldn't this new wave happen?
Again, are new migrants not integrating? Are new migrants not assimilating? That's not something I'm going to wade into. It's not an opinion I hold, but that's the view there. Interestingly, the fundraising page is pushing for donations before June 30. The donations start at $29 and they go all the way up to $2,000. You can, of course, put a custom amount in. I tried $1 and it did say that you can put $1 in, so I was just checking to make sure. Did you send it, Chris? I did not send it. And you can commit to a once-only payment or a monthly ongoing payment.
Turning overseas and Donald Trump has announced he's called off a new round of military strikes on Iran. The US president was yesterday threatening to hit the country very hard with plans as well to take Karg Island, which hosts a major oil facility. But early this morning our time, Trump fired off a post on Truth Social saying he has cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings because a deal is close.
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