Former Labor Minister Doesn't Think Andrews Deserved Honour 11/06/2024

A former Labor minister has sided with families of Covid victims who feel outraged that Daniel Andrews was given the nation’s highest King’s Birthday honour – as polling shows 95 per cent of people don’t think he deserves it. 

Premier Steven Miles says today’s state budget will be the “best ever” despite it containing the second-largest deficit in a decade to help fund a major pre-election cash splash.

South Australia’s richest private schools have prime real estate holdings estimated to be worth more than $12bn, with one  located on a vast holding near the CBD valued at nearly $3bn.

A 12-year-old repeat offender with a record of more than 80 charges is back at home after being caught breaking and entering just three days after he had been freed on bail by the NSW Supreme Court. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the latest from your news feed. It's Tuesday,
the eleventh of June. A former labor minister has sided
with families of COVID victims who feel outraged that Daniel
Andrews was given the nation's highest King's birthday honour, as
polling shows ninety five percent of people don't think he

(00:23):
deserves it. Amid backlash on Monday, the panel tasked with
choosing recipients was also forced to clarify that one of
its members, who worked under mister Andrews, wasn't in the
room when the controversial ex premiere was chosen. It comes
as a poll of thirty three hundred Herald Son readers
found ninety five percent don't believe mister Andrews, who presided

(00:47):
over deadly COVID errors, was deserving of the honor. Meanwhile,
only four in ten people who voted in a poll
by the Age thought he deserved it. Premier Stephen Myles
said as today's state budget will be the best ever,
despite it containing the second largest deficit in a decade.
To help fund a major pre election cash splash, the

(01:10):
state government has spent weeks strip feeding major cost of
living announcements. But mister Miles said there would still be
plenty new for Queenslanders on Tuesday as he stares down
worsening Pole results. Mister Miles insists the government's focus has
not been on the election we back after this. South

(01:32):
Australia's richest private schools have prime real estate holdings estimated
to be worth more than twelve billion dollars, with one
located on a vast holding near the CBD valued at
nearly three billion dollars. Some are also eagerly buying nearby
land to set themselves up for future expansion, but at

(01:52):
the same time are pushing up house prices in some
of Adelaide's most pricey suburbs. Saint Peter's College, on the
edge of the CBD, has the most valuable landholding among
private schools. It is on a thirty two acre in
College Park that will be worth two point eighty six
billion dollars if developed. And a twelve year old repeat

(02:13):
offender with a record of more than eighty charges is
back at home after being caught breaking and entering just
three days after he had been freed on bail by
the New South Wales Supreme Court. The convicted car thief,
burglar and with a history of being involved in police
pursuits in the Double Region in the state's west. The
juvenile delinquent was granted home detention for a third time

(02:35):
after being rearrested on Sunday morning. Local police, already battling
massive crime rates in the region as well as staff shortages,
believe the court system has left them down. And those
are the latest headlines. We'll be back with another update
for you tomorrow.