4 Jun 2025

Australia: Mushroom case, defence spending, wages up

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 4 June 2025
A handout sketch received from the Supreme Court of Victoria shows Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington.

A handout sketch received from the Supreme Court of Victoria shows Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington. Photo: AFP / PAUL TYQUIN

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn for an update on the Erin Patterson case - the woman accused of killing three of her in-laws by death cap mushrooms - after she took the witness stand yesterday.

PM Anthony Albanese is rebuffing a call from the US to up defence spending, millions of Australians are about to get a pay rise of 3.5% after the Fair Work Commission decided the national minimum wage needed to rise and the social media craze 'Run it Straight' has made it to Australia.