Good afternoon. Erin Patterson has told a courtshe foraged wild mushroomsand had eaten them with her children in the past, becoming interested in them while walking near her home during Covid lockdowns.
In her second day in the witness box, Patterson also told the jury in her triple murder trial that she was never diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had a history of “consulting Dr Google”. The court heard she hoped to bring her family back together despite a formal separation with her estranged husband.
The 50-year-old has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four of her husband’s relatives with a beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha on 29 July 2023.
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Boiled eggs? Tofu? Avocado? Are these high-protein, low-sugar alternative mousse recipes the new way to make the chocolate dessert? TikTok seems to think so. Guardian Australia staffput them through a taste testso you can decide if you should try making these at home – or give them a miss and keep scrolling instead.
“It’s disappointing for us to lose a Greens senator. But Dorinda has said her values lie there, and you need to be true to yourself, don’t you?”
The Greens leader,Larissa Waters, said the Western Australia senator Dorinda Coxgave her just 90 minutes’ notice of her shock defectionto the Labor party yesterday. Waters said she had “no animosity” towards Cox and wished her well, but also noted Labor’s approval of the North West Shelf project, which Cox herself had criticised just days earlier. But Anthony Albanese shrugged off the remarks, saying the Greens had “lost their way” and were “not capable of achieving the change that [Cox] wants to see in public life”.
The Fair Work Commission saysa 3.5% above-inflation increase to the minimum wageis necessary to avoid “entrenched” lower living standards among the millions of Australia’s lowest-paid workers. The annual determination delivered on Tuesday morning was quickly welcomed by the peak unions body, but was criticised by business groups which had argued for an increase of 2.0-2.5%.
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It’s the end of an era: Marc Maron has announced that he’s ending his popular and influential podcast WTF with Marc Maron after nearly 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. Maron says he and his producer, Brendan McDonald, are “tired” and “burnt out” but “utterly satisfied with the work we’ve done”.We’ve rounded up five of the podcast’s best interviews.
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