18 Jun 2025

Australia: Officer shot, mushroom wrap, Trump dump

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 18 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.

Erin Patterson's murder trial has gripped the world. Photo: AFP / PAUL TYQUIN

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton details the shooting in Tasmania of a police officer who'd gone to serve a warrant to repossess a house in the state's rural north-west.

The final prosecution arguments have been delivered in the high-profile death cap mushroom trial of Erin Patterson.

Anthony Albanese's much-hyped first meeting with US President Donald Trump at the G7 hasn't happened, after Trump's decision to leave the summit early.

And two of Australia's highest-profile current affairs talk shows, The Project and Q&A, have been cancelled. 

Karen Middleton is a political correspondent based in Canberra