Dispatch from Morwell, home of the Erin Patterson mushroom trial

Morwell is not a strange, beautiful place, like the town of prosperous Victoria before.

Perhaps when driving from the best Melbourne, you will come over the prince Motorway with a landscape-you pass through the hills (and there is the Hillclimb Race Facility), you will come over a cretin and you will see the participation of the Loy Yang Electrical Power Plant, which is one of the largest fossil fuel facilities in the country, and feed on local net coal miners. With the closure of the coal -fired power and the closure of Loy Yang, the town shrunk to half of the mid -1990s, and the indoor shops dominate the CBD.

Especially in winter, a bitter cold place with little things. The nights are basically freezing and has a reputation for the security (or more precisely a deficiency) that the locals say that they are not completely deserved.

With the 50 -year -old Leongatha woman Erin Patterson closed the trial on Thursday, I am one of the few reporters from the region (ABC Gippsland and Win News reporters to join the throne of the media in the jury pool chamber of the Latrobe Valley Civil Courts, where the trial of 50 -year -old Leongatha woman continued for 31 days.

Growing up for about an hour on the road, primarily to go back to a place I know for reasons for Nis sports – Morwell, cult former Australian fast Melon Peter Siddle, as well as the house of the Gippsland Power Footy factory. Now, I am dozens of journalists who descended to the ground for a hearing that occupies the soul of a nation like a few before me.

At the end of the day, the defendant begins the head examination-in other words, in a cross examination, the lawyer is questioned by his lawyers before being taken under the microscope. This continues for the whole time Crirase He spends at the hearing.

Patterson wants an increase in participation in the media. Helen Garner doesn’t appear from anywhere, and he’s on his way to the courtroom to see that Patterson is giving evidence. Only six journalists selected by random voting in the courtroom at a time are allowed.

The rest of the lucky losers are usually placed in a room used for jury pools.

But as Patterson’s evidence continues, there are more people going to court. There are 15 reporters on Monday morning and grow more than 20 on Tuesday. Nine, News Corp, ABC, AAP, Seven, BBC and Guardian Australia It is represented on Monday morning, many cannot find accommodation in Morwell and has to travel from neighboring Traralgon.

By sharing with a series of ABC and seven reporters, we are put in Cedar Lodge Motel next to the court building. ABC produces a regular podcast in the case as well as a literary of other organizations – their title Daily mushroom case. The teams created a temporary studio in their accommodation by supporting the bed for sound insulation. He wanted to do more with the public broadcaster skillfully and praised, often less. For their problems, they sit on the Apple Podcast graphics during writing, True Crime Australia Mushroom cookProduced by News Corp, it ranks fifth.

The personnel in the local café tell us that the media condition is “enjoyable ve and that they are not so busy in a short time when they are open for business. Lindy Chamberlain has drawn attention to some oddities that have been caused by being a coffee point for the largest Australian murder from the early 1980s.

. Herald Sun’s Brooke Grebert-Craig said Mediaweek At one point, he stood next to Ian Wilkinson’s sixth witness, who survived lunch while buying a coffee.

“As a journalist, you wonder if you need to say something,” he said.

“But then you remember: three people are dead. Still grief. Every day he went to court. I regards, I just allowed him.”

GREBERT-CRAİG, Herald Sun’s The scope of the hearing is with Anthony Dowsley, who won Gold Walkley, and Court correspondent Laura Placella.

The experience of supporting the business world of the café is not shared on the train line, it was said that it was significantly quieter than expected. When the hearing came to the city in a Dined restaurant, he said that journalists made staff arrangements to take into account the expected lunch, but none of them had come – we were the only boss.

The locals we talked about, while it is happy to discuss what it is like to watch the media in the towns, while the sources speaking from the news rooms of competing organizations, said that journalists in the field are disappointed with the inhabitants of the town. An employee who helps to produce the scope of mushroom trial Crirase Considering some WiseCracks in the city, it is perhaps surprising that the locals would not talk to them, given some WiseCracks in the city.

Not that Crirase It does not contain its own Diva-Esque complaints. On my way to Traralgon for dinner with a local footballer in sponsor pubs, I was shocked at the expense of a finger and a glass of stone and wood. Recent renewals (undoubtedly quite pleasant) have developed the atmosphere of the organization, but $ 46.40 is a fair whale.

“Everyone is talking about it and it is funny to have a damn BBC in Morwell. It is a very common speech at PUB or Footy,” he says.

For all the different experiences that media organizations experienced with the locals, something was clear – apparently they can’t get enough without trying. Everyone I talk about in the town expresses Patterson only as “Erin ,, as if they are assumed to be talking about. A GP working in the Latrobe Valley, excitedly wants the case to run out and told me that his regional patients are fighting for accommodation around Morwell.

On Tuesday morning, Patterson’s leading role, while public members began to find a place in the courtroom at 6 in the morning, when the temperature was 2.2 degrees cruel.

The evidence ended this week in the afternoon. Podcasts, live blogs and endless URLs continue.