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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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Nine chairman Peter Costello has been captured on video pushing a journalist to the ground at Canberra Airport, after the former federal treasurer refused to answer the reporter’s questions relating to the rolling harassment scandal at the under-siege media company. 

Four years on from the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay, the couple’s loved ones sat ­metres away from the man ­accused of murdering them. 

 

The price tag of the Miles government’s centrepiece “Big Build” has ballooned to $107bn over the next four years – almost the same cost, per minute, of the Apollo Project that landed men on the moon. 

 

Port Adelaide has brushed off scepticism about its early-season form, believing it has set a really good platform to attack the second half of the campaign as it chases a flag. 
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An encampment of rough sleepers has sprung up outside the Reserve Bank’s Martin Place offices as hundreds of people sleep on the street in the City of Sydney every night. 

 

Taxpayers are forking out $2 million a year to look after a intellectually disabled boy, but his care is still failing so catastrophically he has been the subject of more than 500 critical incidents in less than two years. 

 

A court has heard two Queensland owned electricity generators allegedly manipulated the price bracket of their wholesale power packages to create massive artificial spikes in energy market prices for their own profit.   

Alleged Bicycle Bandit, armed robber and terminal cancer patient Kym Allen Parsons has been approved for voluntary assisted dying and has the means to end his life, eight months before his trial. 
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Devastated cruise passengers have reacted furiously to the closure of the iconic P&O Australia brand after a 92-year history and the loss of Aussie jobs. 

 Victoria Police is being forced to fund daily operations with more than $100m saved from hundreds of staff vacancies. 

 

This is Queensland’s tactical blueprint for Selwyn Cobbo to shock the Blues.  

Adelaide has won planning approval for its move to Thebarton Oval, as the Crows’ long search for a new home reaches its conclusion. 
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Foreign citizens including New Zealanders and permanent residents from the UK, US, Canada and Pacific island nations will be able to join the Australian Defence Force in a move to tackle the nation’s military recruitment crisis. 

 QLD Treasurer Cameron Dick has left the door open for tax changes on business and industry in next week’s state budget, but reiterated a “promise” that everyday Queenslanders will not suffer.  

Supermum Jess Stenson says her two young children helped her deal with the drama surrounding an appeal over her marathon selection for the Paris Olympics.  

Dramatic footage of Sydney hitman Hamad Assad being killed has been obtained by DTTV, nearly eight years after the man known as “The Executioner” was himself executed. 
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A teenage boy who made the call for emergency services to help an unresponsive young girl in Adelaide who later died has recalled the incident in harrowing detail. Queensland monthly building approvals have dropped to 25 per cent below their 10-year average, with struggling families turning to measures such as “instant” homes to cope with the housing crisis. Councils and the construction industry have slammed the NSW Government’s new housing targets as “numbers on a piece of paper”, raising fears a building industry on its knees will be unable to hit the state’s goals. 
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