Trump-Musk bromance over, Australian jailed in Bali, Tasmania political crisis

What was once a White House bromance has exploded into a social media meltdown. Donald Trump and Elon Musk, trading insults on a global stage.

A Sydney man has been jailed in Bali found guilty of assaulting security officers outside a popular bar.

Tasmania is facing a snap election after Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff was ousted in a no confidence vote following fallout from a new AFL stadium.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning. The housemates of missing Queensland teenager Phoebe Bishop
have been charged with her murder. Homicide detectives charged thirty
four year old James Wood and thirty three year old
Tanika Bromley with one count of murder each and two
counts each of interfering with a corpse. Phoebe's mother, Carlie
Johnson posted on social media saying her world has just

(00:25):
been shattered into the most horrific place. Wood and Bromley
will face Bunderberg Magistrates Court today And to some breaking news,
Police in western Sydney right now hunting an arsonist who
crashed their car into a Mount Pritchard fruit shop before
setting it on fire. The blaze has spread through the
popular store, causing a huge amount of damage. The driver

(00:47):
escaped before anyone arrived at the scene. No one was
injured in the attack and meantime, police in Melbourne are
also hunting an arsonist after a cafe in Sunbury was
torched this morning. The fire was lit around two o'clock,
severely damaging the businesses on Drover Street in Sunbury. A
crime scene has now been set up. Thankfully no one
was injured and to more breaking news, from overseas. Now, well,

(01:11):
what was once a White House bromance has exploded into
a social media meltdown. Donald Trump and Elon Musk trading
insults on a global stage. Let's go live to US
correspondent Marley Hogan. Now, so, Marley, what's behind this spectacular
falling out? What's happened?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Mon?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Good morning? Well, it is official. The relationship is over.
There's been a lot of speculation about how long these
two men, with massive personalities and very strong personal and
political views could remain on the same page, and for
the last few months they have. Donald Trump and Elon
Musk saw eye to eye on a lot of issues.
Elon Musk had privileges where he could walk into the
White House. Donald Trump took him to very high level meetings.

(01:50):
There is no doubt that Elon Musk had the ear
of the US President. But that friendship has broken down
very dramatically today and in very public view. The heart
of this feud is Donald Trump's Big Beautiful bill. It
is a tax spending, a tax cut and spending bill.
Elon Musk sees it as a direct attack on his

(02:11):
work when he was the head of Doze trying to
save the government money, but Donald Trump has suggested the
reason Elon Musk doesn't like the bill is because it
takes money out of his pockets because the legislation rolls
back electric vehicle tax credits.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
He knew it better than almost anybody, and he never
had a problem until right after he left. And if
you saw the statements he made about me, which I'm
sure you can get very easily, it's very fresh on tape.
He said the most beautiful things about me, and he
hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll
be next. But I'm very disappointed in Elan. I've helped
Elan a lot. Look, Elon and I had a great relationship.

(02:51):
I don't know if we're well anymore well.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Elon Musk has declared all out war, firing back on
social media, saying without me, Trump would have lost the election,
Dems would control the House, and Republicans would be fifty
one forty nine in the Senate. Such ingratitude, Elon Musk
spent nearly three hundred million US dollars helping Donald Trump's

(03:14):
election campaign, and now Elon Musk is suggesting on Twitter
that maybe it's time to fund and to create sorry
a new political party in America. This breakdown is far
from over.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And whoever saw it coming, Thanks very much, Miley. The
Sydney man has been jailed in Balley, found guilty of
assaulting security officers outside of popular bar. Muhammed Riffai was
sentenced to four months behind bars, minus time already served
for his involvement in this wild brawl. In February, the
judge handed down a lighter sentence after expressed regret for

(03:51):
his actions. He could book free from the middle of
next month. Accused killer Aaron Patterson has been asked directly
if she intended to feed her relatives deadly mushrooms. It's
the first time prosecutors have grilled the mother of two,
as she admitted to telling a string of lies.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
In questions. So many have been asking about the fatal
mushroom meal. Aaron Patterson told the jury her answers, have
you ever intentionally picked death cap mushrooms?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
No?

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Did you intentionally include death cap mushrooms in the beef
wellingtons you prepared?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
No.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
On her fourth day in the witness stand, the accused
killer's defense barrister asked her about some of the most
contested issues in the case, were each of the beef
wellingtons that you served up the same Yes? Did you
lie about purchasing dried mushrooms from an Asian grosser?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
No?

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Did you lie about your children eating leftovers of the
same meal?

Speaker 4 (04:49):
No?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
I didn't. Did you pretend to be sick following the lunch, No?
I didn't. Miss Patterson was also questioned about how she
lied in her police interview about owning a de hydrator.
She now admits to using the appliance to dry wild
mushrooms she'd foraged before she dumped it at the tip
after her lunch guests fell ill. I had disposed of

(05:11):
it a few days earlier in the context of thinking
that maybe mushrooms that I'd foraged all the meal I'd
prepared was responsible for making people sick. And then on
the Saturday, Detective epping Stall told me Gaaleen Heather had
passed away, and it was this stupid knee jerk reaction
to dig deeper and keep lying. I was just scared,
but I shouldn't have done it. In cross examination, prosecutor

(05:32):
the Nette Rogers said Miss Pattison had deliberately included death
cap mushrooms in the beef Wellington's in order to poison
her lunch guests. She went on to suggest Miss Pattison
had intended to serve one of the beef Wellington's to
her estranged husband if he turned up to the lunch.
The mushroom cook answering that if he'd come, she would
have given him a Beef Wellington too, but not one

(05:55):
with death cap mushrooms intentionally. The prosecution also grilled Miss
Patterson about her admission she'd lied about having cancer because
she wanted her in law support ahead of a secret
gastric bypass surgery. Doctor Rogers referring to evidence previously given
by the lunch's sole survivor, Ian Wilkinson, that Miss Pattison

(06:16):
had told her four guests she'd been diagnosed, and evidence
from her estranged husband Simon that his father Don had
spoken in hospital about Miss Patterson needing chemo. The accused
killer replied that she hadn't told her guests about having cancer,
claiming a child protection worker was wrong when she gave

(06:36):
evidence Miss Patterson told her the purpose of the lunch
was to discuss a medical issue. Doctor Rogers also suggested
that Miss Patterson assume that her cancer lies would never
be found out because she thought all her lunch guests
would die. The mushroom cook replied that that wasn't true.
The mum of two will take the stand for a

(06:58):
fifth day to day in what's been a big week
of evidence for the jewelry Estellegreypink seven News.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Tasmania is facing a snap election after Liberal Premier Jeremy
Rockcliffe was ousted in a no confidence vote following a
fallout from a new AFL stadium. Live to Josh Martin,
who's in Cambra, Josh, good morning to you. So Rockcliffe
is accused here of sending the state.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Broke morning mon Yes, Labor says the Liberal Premier Jeremy
Rockcliffe has taken Tasmania from being debt free towards being
eleven billion dollars in the red. Mister Rockliffe is also
being criticized over cost blowouts for a new Tasmanian AFL
stadium in Hobart and not finding a replacement ship for
the Spirit of Tasmania. The Liberal leader lost a no

(07:44):
confidence motion yesterday, meaning an election will be called, but
that's not expected to take place until next week, when
Governor Barbara Baker is back in the state. There is
likely to be an emergency sitting of Parliament next Tuesday
to pass key budget bills to ensure public servants like teachers,
nurses and police officers will be paid. The AFL world

(08:07):
has been following this closely. Monferriant could mean the end
of the new Tasmanian Devil's Team before they even start,
but Labor leader Dean Winter says he supports the team
and a stadium, but says there are higher priorities for
Tasmanians like cost living in housing. This has a long
way to play.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Out, all right, thanks very much, Josh. A rescue team
has battled tough conditions to save a humpback whale which
had been caught in rope just east of the Gold
Coast Seaway. Twenty knot wins and high swells meant that
they could only remove some of the rope before the
whale escaped. We're able to move about ten feet of

(08:43):
the rope from the animal and we're not too sure
what was left.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Unfortunately, we never sighted the whale after that.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's believed the whale is the same one spotted trapped
in rope off bar And Bay on Wednesday. There's a
warning for women using the weight loss drugs as Zmpic
and Munjarro to not rely on oral contraception alone. After
a spike in unplanned pregnancies, police taking the so called
skinny jabs have been advised to use barrier contraception after

(09:12):
more than forty unintended pregnancies were reported. The Australian Medical
Association is yet to issue such a warning for Australian women.
The Powerball has jackpotted to a staggering one hundred million
dollars after no winner was found for the fourth straight week.
Six Division two winners took home just over one hundred
and twenty one thousand dollars. It's expected that half of

(09:35):
Ossie adults will buy a ticket for next week's draw,
and if one single player takes out the jackpot, it'll
be Australia's third biggest single lotto win ever. And checking
Friday's weather now mostly sunny in Brisbane with the top
of twenty three, party claudy in Sydney, eighteen morning frost,
then claudy in Canberra, thirteen chaos increasing in Melbourne with
the top of fourteen, a shower or two developing in

(09:56):
Hobart and fourteen Chaoers in Adelaide's seventeen Sunday in Perth
nineteen are mostly sunny day in Darwin for the top
of thirty one degrees