The doctor who first treated triple-murderer Erin Patterson when she presented to hospital after poisoning her in-laws says he knew she was guilty from the start.

Doctor Chris Webster was the first medical professional to speak to Erin Patterson when she presented to Leongatha Hospital about 8am on July 31, 2023.

When she was reluctant to get treatment and self-discharged against medical advice, Webster called triple zero.

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For the first-time, the triple zero call, along with dozens of other exhibits in the case against the triple-murderer, have been released.

"This is Dr Chris Webster calling from Leongatha Hospital. I have a concern regarding a patient that presented here earlier but has left the building and is potentially exposed to a fatal toxin from mushroom poisoning," Webster told authorities in the triple zero call.

"I've tried several times to get hold of her on her mobile phone."

Patterson left just five minutes after presenting to the hospital, when the nurse was due to begin observations, Webster told the triple zero operator.

"I had a brief chat with her about where the mushrooms were obtained and after that, while I was attending to the other patients, the nurse informed me she had discharged herself against medical advice," he told the operator.

Speaking out for the first time, Webster said his "heart skipped a beat" when Patterson presented to hospital with gastro symptoms and revealed her name. 

"I bypassed all of the usual triage protocols and just brought her straight in and sat her down and just looked her straight in the eye directly and said 'the people at Dandenong suspect death cap mushroom poisoning, where did you get the mushrooms?'" Webster recalled.

"That's when she said 'Woolworths'. She was fairly impassive, wasn't loud or hysterical, wasn't crying. She just answered the question in a pretty matter-of-fact way.

"After that I was like OK, I don't want to talk to you anymore, I know what you've done."

Ian and Heather Wilkinson, were also at the hospital, desperately sick, but the doctor says something felt very sinister.

"She wasn't shaking, Erin was sat in a chair, I don't even remember her looking at Ian and Heather," Webster said.

"She's evil. She wanted people out of her life and rather than using normal channels she snuffed out their lives and attempted to snuff out another."

Webster's triple zero call was the first domino to fall in a chain reaction that ultimately exposed a killer.

"When she didn't respond in a way that would instantly explain it was a tragic accident, from that moment in my mind she was guilty. She was evil, and she was very smart to carry it all out but she didn't cross the Ts and dot the Is," he said.

The next time Webster came face-to-face with Patterson was in the courtroom when he was called as a witness.

"When I looked at her, when I found the opportunity to sneak a peek, it was visceral, I felt the intensity, the hostility, the negativity, it was an intense gaze," he said.

"She's evil and she had a problem, she had a dilemma, and the solution that she chose is sociopathic.

"If you don't like your in-laws there are other things you can do besides snuffing out a family."

Spark took five days to reconnect the landline, despite daily calls.

The graves, up to 150 years old, were pushed over and broken.

Experts say public reporting of breaches during pandemic was ineffective and burdensome.

Her actions included discarding a rubbish bag and replacing her false nails.

The man is facing 14 charges, including unlawful possession of prohibited firearms.

She was dragged by the robber’s car when she fought to get her money back.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has left interest rates on hold at 3.85 per cent, defying the expectations of economists and struggling mortgage holders, and admitted there might not be too many more cuts still to come.

The central bank was widely anticipated to cut the cash rate target today, which would have seen interest rates cut in successive meetings for the first time since March 2020.

But in handing down its monetary statement, the RBA Board said it would "wait for more information" before moving the cash rate target.

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"The Board continues to judge that the risks to inflation have become more balanced and the labour market remains strong," the board said.

"Nevertheless it remains cautious about the outlook, particularly given the heightened level of uncertainty about both aggregate demand and supply.

"The Board judged that it could wait for a little more information to confirm that inflation remains on track to reach 2.5 per cent on a sustainable basis.

"It noted that monetary policy is well placed to respond decisively to international developments if they were to have material implications for activity and inflation in Australia."

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RBA might not hand down many more cuts

Speaking to reporters following the monetary policy board's decision, Governor Michele Bullock said the RBA might not cut rates too much further, at least not compared to what other nations' central banks have done.

"The board's strategy has been to bring inflation down while avoiding a sharp rise in unemployment," Bullock said.

"This strategy has meant that we didn't take rates as high as some other countries, and so it may be that we don't need to reduce rates as much as some other countries have done."

That wasn't to say, though, that another rate cut has been ruled out, with Bullock saying that the split, 6-3 decision to keep rates on hold was more due to timing than the overall inflation picture in Australia.

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The RBA didn't have any new quarterly inflation data to assess following the last rate cut in May (that gets released in a few weeks), and the next meeting is little more than a month away.

"The board's decision today was recognising that, look, there's a few weeks, five weeks, until the next meeting… the difference in opinion amongst the board wasn't so much directionally, it was about timing," Bullock said.

She also denied the hold was just a case of the RBA keeping its powder dry in case a negative shock – such as the breakout of a severe trade war – hits the Australian economy.

"Pre-COVID, interest rates were down… we had hardly any room to move.

"So all I'm saying is if something bad does happen, we have more room to move.

"But we are not deliberately holding interest rates higher in order to give ourselves more power."

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'Soul-crushing' to think relief is coming: Experts

Head of consumer research at Finder Graham Cooke said many buyers were all but relying on an interest rate cut.

"There is still a portion of homeowners who are in severe mortgage stress doing it tough," Cooke said.

"It's soul-crushing when you think relief is coming only to find that you need to wait another couple months.

"Cut or not, there is still a significant difference between the average and lowest rate available."

9News finance editor Chris Kohler said today's decision will send experts "back to the drawing board".

"We're expecting these tight monetary policy conditions to be eased now that we've vanquished, essentially, this inflation demon that we've been battling," Kohler said.

"Now, not only were the big economists expecting today to be an interest rate cut, but they were expecting multiple rate cuts for the rest of this year, anywhere between one and three more on top of today.

"So now they're really going to have to go back to the drawing board and decide what is Michele Bullock's game plan here, what are we doing?"

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A 70-year-old man is in serious condition after he and his dog became trapped when a gum tree crushed his ute north-east of South Australia.

The tree fell on top of the ute as the man was driving on Warren Road in Williamstown about 11.30am today. 

Emergency services arrived at the scene and worked to remove the tree with the help of members of the public, who were equipped with a grader and chainsaws.

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They were able to free the man and his dog. 

The man was taken to hospital in serious condition while the dog escaped injury and is being looked after.

Emergency services then worked to clear the road as the ute was towed from the scene.

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A cold front has brought strong to damaging winds across parts of the state today, prompting a severe weather warning from the Bureau of Meteorology.

Williamstown has felt gusts of up to 87 km/h today, with temperatures sitting around a chilly eight degrees.

Peak gusts of about 102km/h were recorded at Cape Willoughby, 98 km/h at Edithburgh, 96km/h at Outer Harbor Tide Gauge and 94 km/h at Minlaton Airport.

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Emergency services were called to the scene about 4.40pm.