Winners
Growth areas $492m for 13 new schools on Melbourneâs fringe. A further $276.4m will be spent to acquire land in growth areas.
Early childhood education Kinder for three-year-olds and four-year-olds in every local government area from 2022, $401m.
Losers
Regional Victoria No funding for new schools in the regions, just 18 of 52 school upgrades are outside Melbourne. International students No plans to bring students back this year and no support for 120,000 who stayed in Victoria last year.
A dozen new schools in Melbourneâs growth areas will be built by 2023.
Credit:Simon Schluter
Analysis
Twelve of 13 new schools, all in Melbourneâs growth areas, will be built by 2023 but there is no money for new regional schools, despite more Victorians moving out of the city than in previous years.
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Ex Kinahan cartel member walks free from court after claiming state benefits while laundering tens of thousands
Paul Neilan
Updated: 17 May 2021, 18:01
A FORMER “mid-tier” Kinahan cartel member who never paid tax and was claiming State benefits while laundering tens of thousands of euro in crime cash was given a fully suspended sentence by the Special Criminal Court today.
Sean Ruth of Stradbrook, Stradbally Road, Portlaoise, Co Laois, had pleaded guilty to two crime-cash laundering offences.
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The Special Criminal CourtCredit: Alamy
The court was previously told that the 32-year-old has paid the Criminal Assets Bureau over €20,000 and that his parents would assist in discharging a remaining €9,900.