Victorian state leader Daniel Andrews will not release speech notes from an address he delivered to Chinese dignitaries at Melbourne’s Park Hyatt on June 6.
The Labor premier’s decision comes after a reporter from the Herald Sun newspaper was barred from entering the Post-Pandemic China-Australia Economic Cooperation Forum, where Andrews spoke for 30 minutes.
There is now pressure on the Victorian premier to release a transcript of his speech—standard practice for political leaders.
“I didn’t use notes. I spoke off the cuff,” he told reporters on June 7.
“It’s often my practice, to the enduring frustration of my staff, I didn’t necessarily refer to them.”…