Politics
Victoria
Erin Patterson trial recap: What happened on every day of the death cap mushroom case
Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after allegedly serving poisonous mushrooms in a beef Wellington for lunch.
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Victorian Parliament
You can’t handle the truth about Victoria’s secret school cuts
What did we learn from Education Minister Ben Carroll’s appearance before budget estimates? As it turns out, quite a bit.
- by Chip Le Grand
Erin Patterson murder trial day 26 as it happened: Mushroom cook says fear of estranged husband’s actions led to phone resets; details dumping food dehydrator at local tip after fatal lunch
Erin Patterson has told a court her estranged husband asked her if she had used a dehydrator to poison his parents, and admitted resetting her phone out of fear police would discover photos she had of foraged mushrooms.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
Premier concedes soaring costs a risk to Suburban Rail Loop
Since 2021 Australia had recorded a 22 per cent increase in the cost of construction.
- by Kieran Rooney and Daniella White
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Hiring
Museum boss ‘disappointed’ at media leaks as union questions Titanic hires
The Museums Victoria chief told a staff meeting she was “disappointed” at leaks to The Age, and has defended her senior managers after an ombudsman’s probe prompted a policy rewrite.
- by Clay Lucas
‘Money can be replaced’: Kennett urges Liberal Party to pay up and save John Pesutto
In a last-minute intervention, former premier Jeff Kennett has written to the Victorian Liberal Party leadership, urging them to intervene and cover Pesutto’s $2.3 million legal bill.
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Public housing tower works delayed as activists block tradies from site
A face-off on Monday morning in North Melbourne has set the scene for a week of resistance to planned demolition works on public housing towers.
- by Rachael Dexter
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Investigations
No job ads, no interviews: Museum’s Titanic hiring spree triggers overhaul
Faced with a visitor surge, Melbourne Museum cut corners on recruitment that prompted investigations from the state’s corruption watchdogs.
- by Clay Lucas
Gender play gap: Girls lag far behind in sport participation
Teenage girls participate in sport at half the rate of their male peers.
- by Bridie Smith
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Emergency services
Fireys using pen and paper as technology fails following cyberattack
Fire Rescue Victoria endured three separate outages in the past week, for up to seven hours at a time.
- by Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
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Women's health
‘Wild with rage’: It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain
Women who have sought help over years for a condition more common than diabetes say they have felt gaslit and disbelieved, and live in excruciating pain. Jacinta Allan is among the 1 million Australians hoping for better.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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