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Michael
Giles

Protesters turn out to hear alleged wombat cruelty case

A POSSE of wildlife protesters, who turned out at the Korumburra Magistrates’ Court on Thursday this week, hoping to see justice dispensed in the case of alleged cruelty to wombats at Venus Bay left disappointed that the case was adjourned without...

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Michael Giles

02 Oct 2025

News

Mushroom murders: ‘There will be an appeal against conviction’

LEGAL counsel for Leongatha triple murderer, Erin Patterson, Richard Edney, has told the Supreme Court in Melbourne this week that his client intends to appeal her conviction. Mr Edney was addressing the trial judge in the Erin Patterson case...

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Michael Giles

02 Oct 2025

News

Services gather on a blue day for police

IT WASN’T just about the 13 Victoria Police Officers, protective services officers, custody officers, police public service employees and chaplains who have died on duty in the past 12 months. The names of four police officers from other...

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Michael Giles

02 Oct 2025

News

Erin Patterson’s case back in court Thursday

THE case of the Leongatha mushroom murders might not yet be over. Despite being handed life sentences on each of the three murder charges, for the deliberate poisoning death of three of her in-laws, and 25 years for the attempted murder of another...

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Michael Giles

01 Oct 2025

News

South Gippsland golfers return triumphant from Country Week

THERE it is! The South Gippsland Men’s Country Week golf team have managed to win the Plate Division at this year’s Country Teams Event held in Mildura at Mildura Golf Club, Red Cliffs Golf Club and Riverside Golf Club. Winning their first three...

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Michael Giles

01 Oct 2025

News

Cliffhanger: South Gippsland golfers seeking promotion at Country Week

THE 2025 Men’s Country Week Team from South Gippsland, playing at Mildura this week is off to a good start in the Plate Division and rates a good chance of qualifying for the Shield Division next year. They have won their first two games this week...

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Michael Giles

30 Sep 2025

News

Imported crime impacting Bass Coast and South Gippsland

EARLIER in September this year, local police called in the Police Air Wing’s Beechcraft King Air 350ER, callsign ‘POLAIR35’, to track an erratic driver who hit speeds of over 200km/h down the Bass Highway between Leongatha and Inverloch. That...

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Michael Giles

28 Sep 2025

Community

‘Critically endangered’ Slender Tree-ferns saved at Turtons Creek

GIPPSLAND Forest Guardians spokesman, Stuart Inchley of Turtons Creek, has hailed the announcement by Hancock Victoria Plantations (HVP) this week that they will stop logging the nearby Fellas Track site as a welcome step in the campaign to protect...

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Michael Giles

24 Sep 2025

News

Perfect Parrots make Dyson’s day in Gippsland League grand final

THE Leongatha Parrots were simply too good for Traralgon in Saturday’s Gippsland League Grand Final, seriously too good. You sensed it from the way they attacked the ball and swarmed the opposition from the outset. You’d expect us to say that...

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Michael Giles

24 Sep 2025

News

Parrots take 2025 Gippsland flag with near-record win over Traralgon

THE Leongatha Football Netball Club has had a big day on Gippsland League Grand Final Day at Morwell on Saturday winning the Seniors and Reserves in the football and the Under 13s and B Grade in the netball. But, in the main football game, they...

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Michael Giles

20 Sep 2025

News

Wonthaggi Power tastes success on Gippsland Grand Final day

A HUGE crowd in black, white and teal turned out at the Morwell netball courts on Saturday and they got what they came for first-up when the club C Grade team came through a grueling finals campaign to claim the premiership. Both teams contesting...

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Michael Giles

20 Sep 2025

News

Leongatha Under 13s triumph on big grand final day

THE Leongatha Under 13 Netball Team came back from a Qualifying Final defeat to Sale a few weeks ago to narrowly turn the tables on them in the grand final at Morwell on Saturday, September 20. In a game that started with squally wind, rain and even...

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Michael Giles

20 Sep 2025

News

Reduced bail conditions for accused Wonthaggi pedestrian killer

THE 47-year-old Narre Warren North man, who was allegedly so drunk he didn’t even know he’d crashed into a Wonthaggi pedestrian in March this year, killing her and her neighbour’s dog, is not in jail. In fact, when south-eastern suburbs...

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Michael Giles

19 Sep 2025