60 Minutes this Sunday sees the return of Tracy Grimshaw for a powerful and deeply personal interview with John Singleton, who speaks publicly for the first time about the loss of his daughter Dawn.
Also in the episode, Amelia Adams examines the growing influence of Elon Musk inside Donald Trump’s White House, and the fallout from their unlikely alliance.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Australians know John Singleton as a no-nonsense, super-successful business titan, always confident and in control. But on 60 Minutes this week, a very different John Singleton.
Not the businessman but a broken father consumed with despair over the death of his beautiful daughter Dawn. A year ago, almost to the day, Dawn and five others were stabbed to death at the Westfield Bondi shopping centre.
The perpetrator was 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, a mentally ill man who, somehow, had fallen through the cracks of the health system. Now a coronial inquest is set to examine what happened and why.
But in an exclusive television interview with Nine’s Tracy Grimshaw, John says enough is enough. He doesn’t believe the inquest will achieve anything, and the prospect of reliving the day he lost his daughter fills him with horror.
Reported by Tracy Grimshaw and produced by Garry McNab.
THE FIRST BUDDY
By announcing aggressive tariffs on goods coming into America, President Donald Trump has lost a lot of friends around the world. Not that he probably cares. And anyway, he has the world’s richest man, his so-called “first buddy”, for company if he gets lonely.
As chief of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has proven to be a very loyal functionary, and one who’s more than happy to do his boss’s dirty work. In a few short months in the role, Musk has overseen the decimation of the American bureaucracy, as well as the sacking of tens of thousands of federal workers, all in the name of eliminating waste and fraud.
But as Amelia Adams reports, Musk too is paying a hefty price for his vigour.
Reported by Amelia Adams and produced by Garry McNab and Nichola Younger.
