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Victorian police have arrested Erin Patterson in relation to the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths in regional Australia.

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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once the search of the premises is complete today the female will be interviewed by homicide squad investigators.

The female? Not the woman or even her name? Talk about lazy grammar

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apart from making me giggle at how Ferengi it sounds isn't this like some kind of internal policy driven language and not just the whim of a staffer?

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That’s even grosser. How should the newspaper know or anyone care if a person is female, have they interviewed her doctor or taken a dna sample?