Harrison County Sheriff Brandon Fletcher says he does not expect an arrest being made” in a hunting accident that killed an 11-year-old girl Saturday afternoon. Daisy Grace Lynn George was shot by her father with a high-powered rifle just east of Hallsville in what Fletcher called “a tragic accident
In October it emerged in budget estimates that still no emergency funding had been disbursed, apart from the quarantining of $49.5m for Screen Australia in the form of insurance guarantees to get the industry moving again.
The arts minister, Paul Fletcher, announced on 20 November that the emergency funding component of the total $250m rescue package would “begin to flow immediately”.
Three days later he reiterated that promise, naming 10 companies and events that would be the first among 48 projects in Victoria to receive the emergency funds “immediately”.
Fletcher’s office would not identify the remaining 38 Victorian arts organisations that it said would receive the first tranche of grant money.