Thanks very much for reading Need to Know this Friday, June 30. Here are today’s biggest developments:

- Wellcamp fails on transparency, value for money: report: Construction of Queensland’s mothballed $223 million Wellcamp quarantine facility should have been more carefully handled to ensure value for money, Queensland’s Auditor-General has found.

- Victorian Liberals vow to scrap Andrews’ private school payroll tax: The payroll tax will hit nearly 60 private schools charging more than $15,000 a student from July 1 next year until at least January 2029.

- Energy transition too slow and disorderly: Bowen: Australia’s energy transition has been “way too slow” and “way too disorderly”, according to Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

- Childcare subsidies designed to boost productivity: PM: From July, families earning up to $80,000 will get an increased maximum subsidy, from 85 per cent to 90 per cent, with softer taper rates above this income.

- Dutton leaps to Berejiklian’s defence after corruption findings: “I think she has paid a big price (for her relationship) ... and her integrity is not in question,” Dutton told Channel 9.

- Palmer lawyers accused of bid to ‘derail’ criminal case: Prosecutors in a criminal case against Queensland businessman Clive Palmer have taken a step forward after years of legal wrangling over fraud and dishonesty charges.

- Andrews must explain why four-day China trip cost $82k: Liberals: Airfares for Andrews and his two staffers cost $61,813.95, with nearly $15,000 spent on accommodation, according to the state government travel report released on Thursday.