7NEWS Australia published this video item, entitled “Craig Kelly prints fake trillion dollar bills to visually represent Australia’s debt | 7NEWS” – below is their description.
“This pallet here, if this was 100 dollar bills stacked tight, would be $100 million. So 10 of these pallets would be a billion, but we would need 10,000 of these pallets – that would go for a line of about 10 kilometres long – to be a trillion dollars.” Independent MP Craig Kelly brought a pallet of fake trillion dollar bank notes into Federal Parliament this morning, ahead of tonight’s Budget, to visualise the combined debt that state and federal governments “are headed towards in the next 12 months”. Kelly says this stunt cost about $1,000, which would be paid out of his taxpayer-funded communications allowance – but has since changed his mind, saying he will foot the bill.
7NEWS Australia YouTube Channel
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