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Michael
Giles

Facebook Messenger exchange reveals depth of Patterson family fallout

ON DAY 16 of the Erin Patterson murder trial in the Supreme Court in Morwell Thursday this week, the depth of the breakdown in Ms Patterson’s relationship with her husband Simon and his family was revealed in a series of Facebook messages early in...

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Michael Giles

10 hours ago

News

Government backflips to ‘half-price camping’ in Victoria

FREE sites still available to June 30, 2025 The usually very popular Wilsons Promontory’s Tidal River Camping Ground was the hardest hit by would-be campers who ‘ghosted’ their bookings. IT HAS been announced that fdrom July 1, 2025, the...

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Michael Giles

13 hours ago

News

What Erin Patterson’s phone data said about her movements

IN THE hour and a half between the time Erin Patterson discharged herself from the Leongatha Hospital, against medical advice at 8.10am on Monday, July 31, 2023, and returned at 9.48am, there is a 28-minute gap in her phone records. It was one of...

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Michael Giles

22 May 2025

News

$5.3 million in the budget for San Remo Primary School

THE San Remo Primary School has received its long-awaited school modernisation and upgrade funding of $5.3 million in the State Budget handed down in State Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, May 20, 2025. Bass MP Jordan Crugnale has warmly welcomed...

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Michael Giles

20 May 2025

Council

If you don’t know how to do it... they’ll tell you how to walk the dog

YOU can’t just walk your dog anywhere you like in Bass Coast, regardless of whether it’s on a leash or off. For example, it might come as a complete surprise to many to learn that between December 1 and April 30 each year, you can’t go for...

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Michael Giles

18 May 2025

Council

Bridge too far for Kernot residents

STEWART Road bridge at Kernot closed on Monday, April 7 and here we are more than a month later and no one is any the wiser about when it will reopen again. This Wednesday, a petition containing 476 signatures will be presented to council saying...

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Michael Giles

18 May 2025

News

$50M Phillip Island Bridge works head ‘billion dollar road blitz’

ONE OF the features of a $976 million ‘Better Roads Blitz’ in Tuesday’s State Budget, to fix potholes and upgrade road surfaces across Victoria, will be a $50 million maintenance program on the San Remo-Phillip Island Bridge. The huge...

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No turbines for South Gippsland, Bass Coast

THE Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) map is out and we’re not on it. Areas of South Gippsland previously earmarked for turbine development at Korumburra and between Foster and Fish Creek, for example, have been removed. Most of the turbines and solar...

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Michael Giles

16 May 2025

News

Who is eligible for the ‘Emergency Services’ rebate?

MEMBERS of the Victorian Legislative Council spent most of the night on Thursday night debating the Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Bill 2025 but their commentary revealed that the devil of the legislation...

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Michael Giles

16 May 2025

News

Death cap toxins found in two victims, in the leftovers and in Erin Patterson’s dehydrator

THE highly toxic amatoxins found only in death cap mushrooms, including alpha-amanitin and beta-amanitin, were detected in urine samples provided by one of the victims of the poisonous beef Wellington lunch, Korumburra’s Don Patterson, at the...

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Michael Giles

16 May 2025

News

Erin Patterson’s in-laws ‘like the parents I didn’t have’

A GIPPSLAND Child Protection officer, Katrina Cripps, told the Supreme Court in Morwell on Thursday, May 15, that she had been called to conduct a welfare check on Erin and Simon Patterson’s children following a report to the Child Protection...

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Michael Giles

15 May 2025

News

Juror discharged in mushroom murder trial at Morwell

IN A significant development on Day 12 of the Erin Patterson murder trial in Morwell on Thursday, May 15, one of the 15 jurors in the case was discharged by Justice Christopher Beale. In court on Thursday, in front of the remaining 14 jurors...

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Michael Giles

15 May 2025

News

No cancer, no liver damage, no pathogens, but there was diarrhoea

An Intensive care specialist, Dr Andrew David Bersten, has given evidence that Erin Patterson had a diarrhoeal illness in the days following the poisonous mushroom lunch at her home in July 2023. THERE is clinical documentation to support the fact...

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Michael Giles

15 May 2025