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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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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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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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Mushroom murder trial: How sick was Erin Patterson?

THERE was no doubt, according to Ian Wilkinson, the only other person to survive the poisonous mushroom lunch at Erin Patterson’s Leongatha home on Saturday, July 29, 2023, besides the cook herself, that Erin was eating her beef Wellington meal...

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Mistakes to be made when foraging for mushrooms, he said

EVEN the most highly qualified botanists and mycologists have difficulty identifying poisonous mushrooms from those that are safe to eat. That was part of the testimony of expert mushroom witness in the Erin Patterson triple murder case, Dr Tom May...

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Smoke fills the air around Grantville again

SMOKE filled the air around Grantville on Monday, May 12 and could be detected over a wide area, around Western Port as far as Cowes and also towards Wonthaggi. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Gippsland region) had...

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