Speaker 1: This is the latest from your news feed. It's Thursday,
Speaker 1: the thirteenth of June. A menacing attack by John Setka
Speaker 1: on AFL umpiring boss Stephen McBurnie that included his image
Speaker 1: on a spoof wanted dead or a live poster has
Speaker 1: been slammed by anti violence campaigners and the state opposition,
Speaker 1: but premierg cinter Allen has refused to criticize the powerful
Speaker 1: cfmy U boss, who vowed to halt construction projects linked
Speaker 1: to the AFL that would make those jobs a quote
Speaker 1: misery for the league, leading to accusations her government is
Speaker 1: too scared to stand up to a major ALP donor.
Speaker 1: Mister Setca, who clashed with mister McBurnie when he was
Speaker 1: the head of the industry watchdog Australian Building and Construction Commission,
Speaker 1: this week warned he would pursue the head of umpiring
Speaker 1: until the end of the earth. Youth offenders have injured
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty seven people in six years by
Speaker 1: crashing cars they have stolen in aggravated burglaries. The casualty
Speaker 1: rate is climbing alarmingly, with fifty three people hurt last
Speaker 1: year and eighty two percent increase on the twenty nine
Speaker 1: in the previous twelve months. The injury figures only relate
Speaker 1: to cars stolen in the kind of overnight aggravated burglaries
Speaker 1: that have become an issue in Melbourne suburbs in the
Speaker 1: past decade. The startling figures come a day after The
Speaker 1: Herald's Sun revealed one of the state's worst youth defenders
Speaker 1: had three hundred and eighty eight charges struck out because
Speaker 1: of his age, with the fourteen year old going on
Speaker 1: to commit six burglaries in six hours during another spree.
Speaker 1: Will be back after this. A New South Wales police
Speaker 1: officer faked a breath test when he caught the son
Speaker 1: of his senior colleague drink driving on a country road
Speaker 1: in the state's southwest. Senior Constable Tom Harper has pleaded
Speaker 1: guilty in the New South Wales Local Court to not
Speaker 1: carrying out his lawful duty as a police officer when
Speaker 1: he pulled over the driver at Narandira last August. The
Speaker 1: Daily Telegraph can today reveal details about the incident and
Speaker 1: subsequent police investigation, despite the Forces media unit failing to
Speaker 1: put out a release in line with their policy, and
Speaker 1: hundreds of people rallied at Tyndale Christian School in Salisbury
Speaker 1: East on Wednesday night in opposition to propose changes to
Speaker 1: discrimination laws for faith based schools. Organizers say the event
Speaker 1: was in direct response to a recent report by an
Speaker 1: the Australian Law Reform Commission, which would make it harder
Speaker 1: for faith based schools to discriminate against applicants whose beliefs
Speaker 1: were at odds with the school's religious values. Associated Christian
Speaker 1: School's Executive Director for Public Policy and Advocacy, Alistair McPherson
Speaker 1: said the proposed legal changes were an attack on parents
Speaker 1: and their ability to choose the values they wished to
Speaker 1: instill in their children. And those are the latest from
Speaker 1: the news feed. Without another update, with you tomorrow.