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Michael
Giles

The message from ‘Change for Sam’ candlelight vigil burns bright

DETERMINED to transform the deep impact of the loss of Samantha Fraser “into tangible and positive change”, her friends and their supporters started the ‘Change for Sam’ initiative in pursuit of a community free from gendered violence. Last...

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Michael Giles

15 hours ago

News

Mushroom trial: ‘They can be scared and alive or dead’ he said

ON DAY 7 of Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial in the Supreme Court in Morwell on Wednesday this week the court heard from several family members of the victims of a poisonous mushroom lunch at Mrs Patterson’s home in July 2023 and also from...

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Michael Giles

07 May 2025

News

Provisional result in Monash could be known today

THE Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) could be in a position to announce a provisional result in the electorate of Monash, four days after the election. Speaking on ABC Gippsland Radio this morning, AEC senior media officer Alex Morris said...

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Michael Giles

07 May 2025

News

Mushroom meal prayers for Erin’s non-existent cancer

KORUMBURRA Baptist Minister Ian Wilkinson, the only person besides Erin Patterson to survive a poisonous mushroom lunch in Leongatha in July 2023, was in the witness stand on Day 6 of the triple murder trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell on...

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Michael Giles

06 May 2025

News

True crime interest revealed as Erin Patterson described as a ‘super sleuth’

ON DAY four of the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, one of the witnesses in the case, Christine Hunt, a member of a true crime Facebook group of which Erin was a member, described Mrs Patterson as “a bit of a super sleuth” within the group...

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Michael Giles

06 May 2025

News

Good signs in Monash for the Liberals’ Mary Aldred

IT’S done and dusted, well almost, in the Federal Electorate of Monash where first-time candidate Mary Aldred is on track to deliver one of very few positive signs for the Liberal Party in the 2025 Federal Election. When vote counting finished on...

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Michael Giles

04 May 2025

Football

Wonthaggi Power wins all four games on the road

NO ONE can remember the last time Wonthaggi Power won all four football matches on the one day as they did at Morwell on Saturday. The Under 16s got the club off to good start winning 10.12.72 to 7.7.49 and the Under 18s continued the theme winning...

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Michael Giles

04 May 2025

News

Watching her weight or watching the mushrooms?

THE woman accused of the murder of three family members and the attempted murder of another after serving them poisoned mushrooms at a lunch in Leongatha on Saturday, July 29, 2023, had poor self-image and low self-esteem, according to her estranged...

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Michael Giles

02 May 2025

News

Mushroom trial: How a fractious relationship unravelled and became toxic

Erin Pattrson’s estranged husband was the first witness called by the prosecution in the case of the triple ‘mushroom’ murders. SIMON Peter Patterson, the estranged husband of the woman accused of the triple murder of three of his family members and...

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Michael Giles

01 May 2025

News

Patterson accused of serving the deadly mushroom meal on different plates

DAY two of the trial of Leongatha woman Erin Patterson, accused of the murders of three family members, and the attempted murder of a fourth following lunch at her home on Saturday, July 29, 2023, was dominated by the opening remarks by Crown...

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Michael Giles

30 Apr 2025

Council

How healthy is your community? Tell us what you think!

Some of the Post It Note ideas contributed at Bass Coast’s Healthy Communities Plan pop-up sessions. THE Bass Coast Shire Council has its Healthy Communities Plan 2025-29 out for public consultation and there’s already been a healthy response to...

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Michael Giles

29 Apr 2025

News

Four attempted murder charges dropped in Patterson case

The prosecution has dropped the attempted murder charges where Simon Patterson was the alleged victim. IN A sensational development on day one of the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, the prosecution has dropped the attempted murder charges...

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Michael Giles

29 Apr 2025

Community

Short but powerful – Bass Coast hosts weekend of film

HOW do you begin to describe the utter devastation of losing your soulmate to illness, suicide or violent death? Film maker, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, knows what it must be like and with his short film ‘Dusty’ in the Open section of the Bass Coast...

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Michael Giles

27 Apr 2025