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Carla Hildebrandt

Carla Hildebrandt

Carla Hildebrandt is a journalist with WAtoday. She previously worked on ABC’s Four Corners and as a court reporter at The Daily Telegraph in Sydney. For secure contact: carlahildebrandt@proton.me.

City of Perth Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds (inset, left) and chief executive Michelle Reynolds (right).

Internal emails reveal depth of rift between City of Perth’s top brass

Freedom of Information documents have revealed tense internal emails within City of Perth’s leadership.

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Yusuf Kahn and Cynthia Lu

Perth businessman pursued for nearly $7 million amid fallout from Modco collapse

A Perth businessman linked to collapsed builder Modco Residential is being sued by the tax office for almost $7 million over allegedly unpaid tax.

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Linda Reynolds with lawyer Martin Bennett outside the Perth Supreme Court in August after the decision in her defamation case against Brittany Higgins and her husband David Sharaz was handed down.

Reynolds’ lawyer eyes Higgins documentary as peace talks loom in ex-senator’s Commonwealth lawsuit

Former defence minister Linda Reynold’s lawyer has flagged scrutiny of a recent documentary on sexual assaults featuring ex-staffer Brittany Higgins.

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A proposed apartment building development on 242 Marine Terrace, South Fremantle.

‘Elegant’, ‘handsome’ – but not for South Beach: Controversial five-storey apartment plan rejected

A “premature” proposal to build a five-storey apartment building overlooking Fremantle’s iconic South Beach has been rejected following a lengthy planning debate.

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The City of Perth Council.

‘Escalating’ safety concerns force Perth council vote as Lord Mayor blocks leadership question

The vote followed a tense exchange after a question about whether conditions had improved “with the Lord Mayor” was ruled out of order.

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The snap rally is scheduled to take place outside Perth’s Council House.

City of Perth councillor travel costs triple to $106k, newly released figures show

Travel spending by councillors at the City of Perth more than tripled last financial year jumping to $106,500.

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Virginia Giuffre with a photo of herself as a teen, when she says she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre died by suicide last year.

Senior judge to decide how estranged husband and teenage daughter join Virginia Giuffre estate battle

The WA Supreme Court will try to untangle the intricacies of Virginia Giuffre’s final wishes as it determines whether her estranged husband and his teenage daughter should be part of the legal stoush over her multi-million dollar estate.

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Virginia Giuffre’s injuries from a domestic violence assault by her then-husband Robert Giuffre in Colorado in 2015.

Violent incident between Giuffre and husband revealed as legal fight over her fortune rages on

A police report has revealed details of a violent incident between Virginia Giuffre and her estranged husband as a bitter legal fight over her multimillion-dollar estate resumes in the Supreme Court.

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Lenard Swanepoel-Trollip launched legal action against his sister, Jennifer McAlpine, in December.

Perth siblings’ court case in limbo over NDIS director’s overseas bankruptcy

A Supreme Court fight between siblings at the centre of a troubled NDIS provider has taken a fresh turn after a lawyer told the court he can’t take instructions from a company’s acting director.

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Husbands Lenard Swanepoel-Trollip and Christiaan Swanepoel-Trollip.

The missing money and litigation overshadowing an NDIS network

From a collapsed real estate firm in South Africa, to troubled NDIS businesses in Australia, an expanding business network is drawing increasing scrutiny.

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