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Michael
Giles

Leongatha’s Ben Harding wins league’s best in debut season

LEONGATHA’S Ben Harding has taken out the Gippsland League’s best and fairest award for 2025, the Trood Award and Rodda Medal, in his first season in the region’s top football competition. However, while he was both surprised and delighted to...

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Michael Giles

21 hours ago

Football

Jai Newcombe does Poowong proud powering Hawks into a big prelim

IT WAS all about Poowong when Channel 7’s Matty Richardson, Daisy Thomas and Rebecca Madden interviewed Hawthorn sensation Jai Newcombe after the big semi-final win against Adelaide on Friday night. They wanted to hear about his unconventional...

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Michael Giles

13 Sep 2025

News

How even Google is mocking Leongatha’s mushroom murders

YOU can’t control what they say on social media, it seems, and heaven knows there’s been some tasteless comments there following the sentencing of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson on Monday this week. But we should be able to draw the line when...

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Michael Giles

12 Sep 2025

News

Smile, you’re on mobile phone detection camera!

THE State Government has invested a further $156.1 million under its second Road Safety Action Plan to continue to expand its Mobile Phone and Seatbelt Detection Camera technology program through to 2030. And they’re on their way to recovering the...

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Michael Giles

12 Sep 2025

News

Port Welshpool coastguard in desperate need of new rescue boat

NATIONALS Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien, revealed a close personal interest in getting the Port Welshpool Volunteer Coastguard a new ocean-going rescue boat. It was one of his first jobs as a new MP, 25 years ago, to help the...

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Michael Giles

10 Sep 2025

News

Timeline of Erin Patterson’s ‘mushroom murders’

THE bewildering case of the Leongatha ‘mushroom murders’ which so captivated the world in 2023, 2024 and 2025 started with the first of two credible discoveries of death cap mushrooms growing in the Leongatha-Korumburra area, at the Loch Recreation...

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Michael Giles

09 Sep 2025

News

Kindness, thanks and forgiveness the message of hope from Ian Wilkinson

THE only lunch guest to survive the deadly meal of Beef Wellington, laced with death cap mushrooms, Pastor Ian Wilkinson, has stood out like a beacon through the dark process of bringing the perpetrator, Erin Patterson, to justice. After giving his...

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Michael Giles

08 Sep 2025

News

‘Worst category of offending’ says Justice Beale

FOR the substantial premeditation, involving months of planning and execution by mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, for her ‘pitiless behaviour’ post offending in refusing to help the suffering victims, for the direct and indirect suffering...

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Michael Giles

08 Sep 2025

News

Mushroom murderer gets life with a non-parole period of 33 years

LEONGATHA mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has been handed a crushing sentence of life in prison, with a minimum of 33 to serve, for the murders of her husband Simon Patterson’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister Heather...

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Michael Giles

08 Sep 2025

News

Sentencing of Leongatha mushroom murderer to be broadcast live

THE Supreme Court of Victoria has taken the unprecedented step of deciding to broadcast the sentencing of Leongatha triple mushroom murderer Erin Patterson live. Set to take place from 9.30am this Monday, September 8 in Court Room 4 at the Supreme...

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Michael Giles

03 Sep 2025

News

Government dodges questions about lifeguard funding

IF IT was left to the State Government, our treacherous local surf beaches would be the scene of a lot more drownings this summer. And both the Member for Gippsland South, Danny O’Brien, and the Bass Coast Shire Council have let the government...

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Michael Giles

02 Sep 2025

News

Media cops a broadside from Simon Patterson

THE “abrasive legal system” and “occasionally callous mainstream media” copped a blast from Simon Patterson in his victim impact statement, read into the court record by his cousin Naomi Gleadow, at the plea hearing on Monday, August 25. Mr...

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Michael Giles

02 Sep 2025

News

Without ‘score assist’ Morwell lives to play another day

MORWELL has stayed alive in the race for the Gippsland League premiership after a thrilling five-point win over a plucky Warragul side, who staged a late run at the Tigers in the elimination final at Wonthaggi on Sunday. But the winning margin...

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Michael Giles

31 Aug 2025