Mikaela Ortolan

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Tim Callanan |Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan

Erin's son is now talking about the day of the lunch. He says his friend stayed at his house on the Friday night before the lunch. He says Erin told him about the lunch on the Saturday morning. He tells the officer interviewing him that he and his sister and a friend went to see a movie in Leongatha on the day of the lunch. All three were then picked up from the cinema by his father and driven back to Erin's house. He says he said hello to the lunch guests.

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Tim Callanan |Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan

He is asked about his parents' relationship and says when he was about seven years of age they "had a few arguments" and his mother moved house but they were never divorced. He says neither his mother nor his father had another relationship. He explains he goes to stay with his father over weekends and he drops them off at school on Monday morning. Erin's son says his mother used to come to his father's house on Friday nights and they would all have dinner together.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Kristian Silva |Tim Callanan |Joseph Dunstan |Mikaela Ortolan

1.The Leongatha hospital had run out of the medication used to counteract death cap mushroom toxin by the time Erin arrived, having used up all of its supplies to treat Ian and Heather Wilkinson. 2.A police officer said Erin was "quite cooperative" as she gave him information over the phone to help him find beef Wellington leftovers in a bin at her home.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Joseph Dunstan |Richard Willingham |Mikaela Ortolan

Senior Liberal figures say the party must review the way it ran its election campaign after it was reduced to just a small handful of seats across the Melbourne region. In a result that delivered a stunning majority win to Labor, the Liberals failed to make inroads in outer-suburban parts of Melbourne despite extensive campaigning on cost-of-living anger.

2 weeks ago | radionz.co.nz | Mikaela Ortolan |Tim Callanan |Kristian Silva

By Mikaela Ortolan, Tim Callanan and Kristian Silva for ABCA defence lawyer representing accused triple-murderer Erin Patterson has told a jury she lied about a cancer diagnosis and foraging mushrooms, but is innocent of murdering three relatives with a poisoned meal. Patterson is on trial facing three murder charges and an attempted murder charge relating to a deadly beef Wellington meal she prepared and served relatives in July 2023.