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Public fascination with crime is nothing new, but the Erin Patterson case may be ‘the first really intense Australian example of it’, expert says

Intensive care doctor says murder convict’s lunch guests were ‘certainly the sickest patients in the whole state’

Australia’s colonial era may be formally over but its legacies of inequality, land dispossession and systemic racism continue to shape daily life for First Peoples.

After seven weeks of evidence, six days of summing up, and six and a half days of jury deliberation in the Victorian Supreme Court sitting in Morwell, Victoria, the verdict is finally in. Erin Patterson murdered her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, along with Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson.

Jacinta Allan says ‘anti-hate taskforce’ to consider if police powers should be increased to ‘stamp out extreme and violent protest’

Accused mushroom killer Erin Patterson has been found guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder by a 15-person jury.

Victorian jury convicts 50-year-old Australian woman who cooked poisoned beef wellingtons that killed three in-laws

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The Prime Minister pledged federal support for Victorian authorities after an unknown man set fire to the doors of a synagogue last night.