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Indian community leader's passionate response to Liberal migrant comments

A leader in the Indian community in Victoria says they are "very hurt" and "not impressed" by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments

Published: 3h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 7:40amSource: ABC Radio MelbourneTopic: Immigration Policy

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Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds

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The uncomfortable legacy of Erin Patterson, Australia's antihero

The mushroom murder case brought frenzied public attention to deep and private pain. But do we allow Patterson's notoriety to overshadow the memory of those she killed, or can we resist and honour the victim's legacies instead?

Published: 2h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 7:58amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Courts

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Morwell reacts to mushroom killer Erin Patterson's life sentence

We were frazzled for the 10 weeks of the trial

Published: 7h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 3:29amSource: ListenTopic: Crime

Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds

'They're not just statistics': Youth worker on Cobblebank teen deaths

The African Australian community has been left reeling after the deaths of two children in Melbourne's western suburbs on the weekend.

Published: 7h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 3:07amSource: ABC Radio MelbourneTopic: Crime

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Duration: 8 minutes 36 seconds

Police officer Neal Thompson farewelled by grieving loved ones

Lisa Thompson says her final weekend with her boyfriend Neal Thompson before he was killed in a shooting at Porepunkah was their best yet.

Published: 4h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 6:27amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Funerals and Memorial Services

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Turmoil in powerful nurses union as members vote on Victorian branch boss

For the first time in 36 years Victorian nurses' union members will vote on a new branch secretary after a failed pay deal led to the resignation of the former boss.

Published: 8h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 2:28amSource: ABC GippslandTopic: Unions

Nurses and supporting trade unionists rally outside Parliament House in Melbourne.

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson to be locked up for at least 33 years

Erin Patterson has been given a chance to one day walk free from prison, as a judge ordered her to serve at least 33 years behind bars for serving her relatives a poisonous beef Wellington.

Published: 2h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 7:57amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Courts

Erin Patterson looks at the camera as she sits in the back of a prison van

Patterson sentenced to life with 33 years non-parole over fatal mushroom lunch — as it happened.

Erin Patterson is sentenced to life in prison with 33 years non-parole, for murdering three in-laws — and attempting to murder a fourth — by lacing their beef Wellingtons with poisonous death cap mushrooms in 2023.

Published: 5h agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 5:24amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Courts

Erin Patterson with glasses on and head down gets into a van outside court

'Beautiful' young man among pair mourned after fatal Melbourne attacks

A 15-year-old boy killed as he made his way home from playing basketball is being mourned as police investigate the fatal stabbing of two children in Melbourne's outer-west on Saturday night.

Published: 56m agoMon 8 Sep 2025 at 9:57amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Crime

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The Nightlife History (of drinking) Quiz

Are you into your trivia? Calling all connoisseurs of cryptic to the ONLY quiz played live, all around Australia...Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The History Quiz!

Published: 19h agoSun 7 Sep 2025 at 3:39pmSource: Listen