Attack on Umpiring Boss Slammed 13/06/2024

A menacing attack by John Setka on AFL umpiring boss Stephen McBurney that included his image on a spoof “Wanted: Dead or Alive” poster has been slammed by anti-violence campaigners and the state opposition.

Youth offenders have injured 137 people in six years by crashing cars they have stolen in aggravated burglaries. 

A NSW Police officer faked a breath test when he caught the son of his senior colleague drink driving on a country road in the state’s southwest.

Hundreds of  people rallied at Tyndale Christian School in Salisbury East on Wednesday night, in opposition to proposed changes to discrimination laws for faith-based schools.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the latest from your news feed. It's Thursday,
the thirteenth of June. A menacing attack by John Setka
on AFL umpiring boss Stephen McBurnie that included his image
on a spoof wanted dead or a live poster has
been slammed by anti violence campaigners and the state opposition,

(00:24):
but premierg cinter Allen has refused to criticize the powerful
cfmy U boss, who vowed to halt construction projects linked
to the AFL that would make those jobs a quote
misery for the league, leading to accusations her government is
too scared to stand up to a major ALP donor.

(00:46):
Mister Setca, who clashed with mister McBurnie when he was
the head of the industry watchdog Australian Building and Construction Commission,
this week warned he would pursue the head of umpiring
until the end of the earth. Youth offenders have injured
one hundred and thirty seven people in six years by
crashing cars they have stolen in aggravated burglaries. The casualty

(01:06):
rate is climbing alarmingly, with fifty three people hurt last
year and eighty two percent increase on the twenty nine
in the previous twelve months. The injury figures only relate
to cars stolen in the kind of overnight aggravated burglaries
that have become an issue in Melbourne suburbs in the
past decade. The startling figures come a day after The
Herald's Sun revealed one of the state's worst youth defenders

(01:28):
had three hundred and eighty eight charges struck out because
of his age, with the fourteen year old going on
to commit six burglaries in six hours during another spree.
Will be back after this. A New South Wales police
officer faked a breath test when he caught the son
of his senior colleague drink driving on a country road
in the state's southwest. Senior Constable Tom Harper has pleaded

(01:50):
guilty in the New South Wales Local Court to not
carrying out his lawful duty as a police officer when
he pulled over the driver at Narandira last August. The
Daily Telegraph can today reveal details about the incident and
subsequent police investigation, despite the Forces media unit failing to
put out a release in line with their policy, and

(02:11):
hundreds of people rallied at Tyndale Christian School in Salisbury
East on Wednesday night in opposition to propose changes to
discrimination laws for faith based schools. Organizers say the event
was in direct response to a recent report by an
the Australian Law Reform Commission, which would make it harder
for faith based schools to discriminate against applicants whose beliefs

(02:31):
were at odds with the school's religious values. Associated Christian
School's Executive Director for Public Policy and Advocacy, Alistair McPherson
said the proposed legal changes were an attack on parents
and their ability to choose the values they wished to
instill in their children. And those are the latest from
the news feed. Without another update, with you tomorrow.