As it happened: WA news on Tuesday, February 25

“North Stoneville has been rejected relentlessly, by our local community for more than three decades, and our intervention approval acknowledges the value, and power, of the community voice in planning,” he said.

“Save Perth Hills pursued intervention, despite the enormous odds against us, because we firmly believed, that because of the potential magnitude of this plan’s impact on our community, our members should have a voice, and a seat, at the decision maker’s table.”

Save Perth Hills will bring community members, and an expert witness, to the appeal hearing, to provide first-hand evidence of the dangers of the proposed housing estate.

“This is a plan that will knowingly place our community, and thousands more people, in bushfire danger, in an era of increasingly frequent and severe bushfire catastrophes,” Brazier said.

“It’s only right that our local community can bring their invaluable lived-experience into the
courtroom.”

WA does not have third-party appeal rights in planning prompting Save Perth Hills to apply for intervention hearing earlier this month.

Satterley objected to the application, while the WAPC did not object.

Judge Jackson also granted the Shire of Mundaring approval to lodge a submission to the appeal hearing, despite Satterley’s objection.

“This morning, the pilot on the Liberal leaders’ charter plane made the decision it was too dangerous to fly into Albany from Kalgoorlie given a weather system over Mt Barker,” the spokesman said.

“The premier is free to provide commentary on aviation safety, but we will always listen to the experts who put safety first.

“Ms Mettam hopes to return to Albany and join Dr Brough on the campaign trail before the election.”

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a zero per cent chance of rain and light northeasterly winds in Mt Barker this afternoon.

It predicted a chance of a thunderstorm over Albany, with a 30 per cent chance of rain.

“AUKUS is a good deal for Australia, but it’s also a really good deal for America,” he said.

“When you look into these matters, you’ll find that the Americans need to build more submarines than they built during the Cold War, particularly attack submarines ... they don’t have the capacity in their defence sector to boost the numbers of submarine builds that they need.”

Meanwhile, Liberal leader Libby Mettam and opposition police spokesman Peter Collier flew to Kalgoorlie to attack the government on youth crime.

Mettam promised $2 million to plan for on-country juvenile rehab centres in regional WA and reiterated her pledge to increase police FTE numbers by 300 on day one if elected by increasing overtime allowances.

She also announced a $4 million school truancy program and reiterated the Liberals pledge to close the Unit 18 youth justice facility at Casuarina Prison within 100 days of winning government.

“WA Labor has been missing in action when it comes to cracking down on crime across the state,” she said.

Jabbie later admitted the horrific crime to an undercover police officer in a prison cell, saying he started to hit Dweh “non-stop” when she refused to talk about aborting the baby.

During his trial, he tried to claim a hitman, or another lover of Dweh’s must have killed her.

Justice Joseph McGrath sentenced him to a minimum of 24 years behind bars, saying that people who are violent towards women must expect severe sentences.

“She was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her,” he said.