2 days Ago By Heather McNeill
Highly respected business leader Elizabeth Gaines has become the first female to be elected chair at West Coast, while 2006 premiership player Rowan Jones will serve as her deputy. Gaines’ ascension to the top job was ratified at a board meeting yesterday, and she will commence as chair from January 1, 2025. Elizabeth Gaines.
Credit: AFR She will take over from Paul Fitzpatrick, whose tenure finishes after serving the maximum nine years as a director. Gaines, who has held senior executive roles with Fortescue Metals Group, joined the Eagles’ board in 2022 and has served as deputy chair for the past two years. She knows she faces a big task ahead of her as West Coast attempt to bounce back from three consecutive years of horror on-field results.
“We are acutely aware that we have not performed on the field as we would have liked in the last three years and we are committed to improving in all areas,” Gaines said in a statement. Linneys has just announced its latest limited collection will feature WA’s quokka, with just three of the pieces to be made, each with a price tag of more than $500,000. The Argyle PinkTM Quokka.
The collector’s item is a fusion of 3.39 carats of pink diamonds, together with 10.96 carats of white and champagne diamonds and around 280 grams of 18K yellow and rose gold.
A detachable gold leaf necklace in the quokka’s paws is 18K gold rose and encrusted with 2.99 carats of pink diamonds. The pink diamonds were mined from the now-closed Argyle Diamond mine in the Kimberley, which ceased production in 2020.
And if you wanted to get a look at the piece, viewings are by appointment only. A man has been accused of supplying illicit drugs to remote Aboriginal communities after police launched an investigation into a spike in violent crime across several dry communities in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands area. An investigation by WA Police, in collaboration with their Northern Territory and South Australian counterparts, allegedly discovered the use of cannabis and alcohol was contributing to the violence.
The 29-year-old being arrested. Credit: WA Police A police raid took place three weeks ago at Docker River Community in the Northern Territory, with a 29-year-old man being arrested and charged with possessing cannabis, offering to supply the drug, possessing stolen cash and drug paraphernalia. He was refused bail and is due to appear in Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court next month.
A second person was also arrested and charged in relation to the possession of illicit drugs and the taking of alcohol onto community land. WA Police acting detective inspector Shayne Knox said it was disappointing to see criminals taking advantage of vulnerable people. “The Lands may be 1500km from Perth, but the way we respond to family violence in our outback communities is just as important as our response to the same incidents in our main regional centres and the Perth metropolitan area,” he said.
Here’s what’s making headlines elsewhere today: Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc. Credit: Bloomberg It was a warm one yesterday, but we won’t quite reach those highs again today. A top of 24 degrees after a chilly overnight low of 11 degrees.
Hello, and welcome to our live blog of all the day’s news. As we left you yesterday, we had just brought you the story of residents in Warwick feeling “blindsided” by a multimillion-dollar triple-skyscraper apartment project which has put the local council and state government at odds. Property developer Silkchime wants to construct seven buildings of up to 25 storeys with a combined 1042 apartments between them, commercial space and 1510 car parking bays.
But nearby residents – not to mention the City of Joondalup – aren’t impressed. Read Jesinta Burton’s report here. In other property news, Satterley’s proposed Perth Hills housing estate has cleared another hurdle, with an offset plan allowing the group to clear habitat home to cockatoos and chuditches given the federal environmental approval tick.
Satterley Property Group founder and chief executive Nigel Satterley, federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. Credit: WAtoday (composite) The move clears the way for Satterley to appeal an earlier decision by the WA Planning Commission to reject the plans, as it fights to build the sprawling 1000-lot North Stoneville estate . Meanwhile, three experienced assistant coaches from Victorian clubs remain in the hunt for the West Coast senior coaching position .
And to our state’s north – the far north, actually, where a vast expanse of Kimberley savannah has been regularly ravaged by wildfires. However, that is until traditional owners in the region stepped in and established an Indigenous fire management plan, which a new study reveals has paid dividends . A detailed CSIRO study of satellite imagery has found hot, late-season fires have declined across nearly three-quarters of the land surface of the savannah-rich north Kimberley since Indigenous burning regimes were adopted a decade ago.
Total fire incidence declined across 40 per cent of the project area. Thank you for joining us this morning, and stay with us as we bring you all the news of the day..
