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Michael
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Van Walker, Peter Foley and an evening sublime at the Archies Creek Hotel

ARCHIES Creek Hotel empresario extraordinaire Peter Foley, hot from a successful run with the Tasmanian convict music history show, was back at the Archies Creek Hotel last Friday night. And he brought with him one of the star acts from the...

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Michael Giles

10 hours ago

News

Case all wrapped up in triple ‘mushroom’ murder trial

AFTER five days of cross-examination and a gruelling eight days in total in the witness stand, it was all over for Erin Patterson just before lunch on Day 31, Thursday, June 12. It was a significant moment in the so-called “Mushroom Murder...

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Michael Giles

12 Jun 2025

News

Mushroom trial: Was she feeding the dogs or covering her tracks?

WHAT did Erin Patterson do for 38 minutes after she discharged herself, against doctor’s advice, from the Leongatha Hospital at 8.10am on Monday, July 31, not returning until 9.48am? Maybe nothing. Maybe it doesn’t matter. Or maybe, as suggested...

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Michael Giles

12 Jun 2025

News

Did Erin already know the kids hadn’t eaten poisoned mushrooms?

THE last thing Erin Patterson should have been worried about when she was told by a doctor that her kids might die from eating poisoned death cap mushrooms, was whether they’d be stressed by the news. That was the proposition put by Crown...

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Michael Giles

11 Jun 2025

News

Mushroom murder trial: ‘Are you making this up as you go along, Ms Patterson?’

ERIN Patterson, the Leongatha mother of two charged with the murders of three of her estranged husband’s relatives, and the attempted murder of another, was in the witness box for her sixth straight day on Tuesday, June 10. It was Day 29 of the...

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Michael Giles

11 Jun 2025

News

Why the Western Port Woodlands are on the map

ONE of the features of the draft Statement of Planning Policy (SPP) for the Bass Coast Shire issued by the Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny last week is the prominence given to the Western Port Woodlands. That’s down to the efforts of the ‘Save...

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Michael Giles

09 Jun 2025

News

Mushroom trial: If she loved them, why didn’t she help them?

“SURELY, if you loved them, you would have immediately notified the medical authorities about there being a possibility that the foraged mushrooms had gone into the container with the Chinese mushrooms?” said Dr Rogers. “Well, I didn’t,”...

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Michael Giles

08 Jun 2025

News

It’s raining goals as Parrots swamp Power in ‘South Gippsland Showdown’

LEONGATHA has come on strong after a solid opening quarter by Wonthaggi to run away with the first South Gippsland Showdown of 2025 in impressive style. The Parrots and the Power were sitting equal top after seven rounds, 6 and 1, and the game...

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Michael Giles

07 Jun 2025

Football

There’s a lot more things to football, they say

ALL roads lead to the Leongatha Recreation Reserve on Saturday, June 7 for the eagerly anticipated contest between South Gippsland rivals Leongatha and Wonthaggi. And spicing up an already tasty menu are the changes both sides have made ahead of the...

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Michael Giles

06 Jun 2025

News

Eyes roll over Erin Patterson’s use of emojis in group chat messages

HOW good are you with emojis? It’s a matter for the jury, as they say, but you can probably chance your arm and say the use of an emoji with a straight line for the mouth, in several of Erin Patterson’s messages to her Facebook group chat...

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Michael Giles

06 Jun 2025

News

Marathon ‘mushroom murder’ trial could go for two more weeks

DAY 27 of the marathon mushroom murder trial at Morwell was a day of big moments. Here’s one of them from Crown Prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers SC. “I suggest that you never thought you would ever have to account for this lie, about having cancer...

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Michael Giles

06 Jun 2025

News

Sick of the trial? Wait until you hear this!

GAIL Patterson’s orange cake. Together with one whole beef Wellington pastie, lots of beans and mashed potato, and most of the fruit platter, interest fell on the late Gail Patterson’s orange cake at Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial in...

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Michael Giles

05 Jun 2025

News

Mushroom trial: Follow the plates if you can’t follow the phones

A FEATURE of Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell over the past six weeks has been the phones. Specifically, Erin Patterson’s mobile phones. Where they went and when, who had them, when SIM cards were swapped in...

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Michael Giles

05 Jun 2025