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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.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre (centre) and Jeffrey Epstein’s then personal assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2001.

‘Profound injustice’: 16 experts demand inquest for Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre

A rare intervention by some of Australia’s most prominent domestic violence experts warns it would be a “profound injustice” if potential systemic failures were not scrutinised.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Melissa Fyfe

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‘Slow femicide’: Call to hold abusive partners to account for suicides

One of the nation’s leading domestic violence experts has urged a rethink of the treatment of suicide deaths when there is a history of domestic abuse.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Melissa Fyfe
Clockwise from top left: WA Local Government Inspector Tony Brown, City of Perth chief executive Michelle Reynolds, and the City of Perth Council, with Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds in the centre.

The complaints at the centre of inspector’s City of Perth probe

Complaints against the City of Perth’s chief executive were detailed to councillors in a behind-closed-doors meeting as part of a wider discussion on the city as an organisation.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Indigo Lemay-Conway
Virginia Giuffre in 2022, with a photo of herself as a teenager.

Virginia Giuffre’s family seeks coronial inquest, says she was ‘let down’ in final months

A year after Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent abuse survivor died by suicide at her rural West Australian property, her brothers are calling for a public inquest and a formal review of police actions they believe failed to protect her.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Melissa Fyfe
Gina Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting, started by her father Lang (far right), is defending claims to its Hope Downs iron ore tenement in the Pilbara from Wright Prospecting, started by Peter Wright (left).

Inside WA’s battle for billions as Gina Rinehart and rival heirs await defining verdict on iron ore fortune

After more than a decade of legal battles, a landmark Supreme Court ruling will determine who is entitled to billions of dollars in Pilbara iron ore royalties, and could send ripples through the resources sector.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
Lenard and Christiaan Swanepoel-Trollip.

Regulators failed to act on warnings about Perth NDIS operator

Regulators were warned twice about an NDIS linked operator now embroiled in liquidations, litigation and claims of missing money.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
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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.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
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.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
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.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
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.

  • Carla Hildebrandt