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Mushroom trial

‘You lied’: Rapid-fire accusations as mushroom cook faces the prosecution

After three days and 30 minutes of softly spoken, slow questioning from the defence, Erin Patterson came under cross-examination.

  • by Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Businessman with history of family violence resigns from gentlemen’s club role

  • by Cameron Houston and Melissa Cunningham
James Dorney, chief executive of Tomra Cleanaway, which manages the NSW container return scheme, at a sorting plant at Eastern Creek.
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The proof that Victoria’s container deposit scheme is working

  • by Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall
The 120 Collins Street Ground Plane refurbishment project.
Planning

This tiny CBD garden provides an oasis for the office-weary

  • by Gemma Grant
Linda Romeo’s mother died in March after spending six hours on a trolley in a corridor at Mildura Hospital.
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Healthcare

Trapped and dying: Victoria’s worst hospital for emergency department waits

  • by Henrietta Cook
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Erin Patterson.
Mushroom trial

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.

“You can’t handle the truth,” bellowed Jack Nicholson as Colonel Nathan Jessup in A Few Good Men.
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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.
Mushroom trial

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

  • by Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
A Suburban Rail Loop construction site.
Suburban Rail Loop

Premier concedes soaring costs a risk to Suburban Rail Loop

  • by Kieran Rooney and Daniella White
The grand staircase at Melbourne Museum’s successful Titanic exhibition, held in late 2023 until April 2024.
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Museum boss ‘disappointed’ at media leaks as union questions Titanic hires

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Crime & Courts

Erin Patterson and her estranged husband Simon Patterson.
Mushroom trial

Erin Patterson murder trial day 27 as it happened: ‘You thought the lunch guests would die’: A rare invitation and a ‘lie about cancer’

  • by Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
Crown Prosecutor Nanette Rogers, SC, and Detective Acting Sergeant Stephen Eppingstal.
Mushroom trial

Mushroom cook thought guests would take her cancer tale to the grave, Crown claims

  • by Erin Pearson
Mushroom trial

‘You lied’: Rapid-fire accusations as mushroom cook faces the prosecution

  • by Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola
A court sketch of Erin Patterson giving evidence in the witness box this week.
Mushroom trial

An estranged husband’s blunt question: ‘Is that how you poisoned my parents?’

  • by Erin Pearson
A court sketch of Erin Patterson giving evidence in the witness box.
Mushroom trial

Shame, embarrassment, self-loathing. The picture of an accused mushroom killer

  • by Erin Pearson and Marta Pascual Juanola
State government principals have been granted new powers.
Schools

Northland machete brawlers should be kicked out of school, government says

  • by Noel Towell, Nicole Precel and Bridie Smith
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