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The court case over the poisoning deaths of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson has begun. Here’s everything you need to know.

White Australia’s relationship with its First Nations Peoples is a profoundly deep wound that must be healed.

Readers respond to the involvement of Exclusive Brethren members in the election campaign, and reflect on art after Auschwitz, Welcome to Country and gratitude.

At least two Australians die of an opioid-related overdose every day, but Victorian police have been told they are not allowed to carry a free, life-saving antidote.

Nillumbik, Melbourne’s “green wedge shire”, has ordered a local farmer uproot a row of native trees she planted in a wildlife corridor.

A long-running feud between Council Watch president Dean Hurlston and Stonnington mayor Melina Sehr has ended in a court battle over personal safety.

Erin Patterson is facing trial after pleading not guilty over a fatal mushroom lunch, but jurors have been told that charges of attempting to kill her husband in the months before the fateful meal have been withdrawn.

Thomas Towle, jailed for 10 years after killing six teenagers in a hit-run in 2006, faced court on Tuesday after admitting to driving while unlicensed and high on drugs.

A 24-year-old man who fatally stabbed an “entirely innocent” stranger in a lift has been sentenced to jail.