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Woodside chair Richard Goyder has been re-elected for another three years during the company’s annual general meeting at Crown Perth.

The vote was 82.73 per cent in his favour. In 2021, more than 99 per cent of shareholders endorsed his re-election.

In a not-so-warm congratulations, however, his speech at the meeting was interrupted by climate change activists who began singing their own version of ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ by Crowded House from the crowd before being escorted out.

Watch the vision below.

To the Supreme Court of Western Australia now where the trial of Hassan Jabbie has just begun. Our court reporter Rebecca Peppiatt is there to hear the facts.

Jabbie, 52, is accused of murdering the mother of his unborn baby, Janet Dweh, 36, in October 2021 after she allegedly ignored his requests to end her pregnancy.

Janet Dweh was allegedly murdered by Hassan Jabbie inside her Dayton.

During the prosecution’s opening address, the jury was told Dweh was eight months pregnant when she was allegedly bludgeoned to death by Jabbie with a hammer inside her Dayton home.

Hassan, who was married to another woman, allegedly sent Dweh multiple audio messages calling her a prostitute and a harlot in the weeks leading up to her death.

The trial has been set down for 13 days.

Check back for Rebecca’s full court report later this afternoon.

Western Australia continues to have the highest rate of migrants in the country, with one in every three people born overseas, but that number is dropping.

In the latest population figures, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today, WA’s migrant population has dropped from 35 per cent in 2023 to 34.1 per cent in 2024.

Nationally, the figure is 30.7 per cent with England, India, China and New Zealand accounting for the biggest populations.

Perth is home to many communities of migrants. Find out where they settled in this interactive article we published in February.

Western Australia had the highest proportion of people born overseas at 34% and Tasmania had the lowest at 16%.Credit: ABS

WorkSafe investigators have travelled to the Goldfields following the death of a 21-year-old man at a mine site near Kambalda on Tuesday.

WA Police confirmed the man died just before 3pm at the Gold Fields-owned St Ives gold mine, situated about 20 kilometres south-east of Kambalda.

Saint Ives gold mine near Kambalda WA owned by Gold Fields.Credit: Gold Fields

WorkSafe’s acting commissioner Sally North said the authority was unable to provide any further details, but extended her condolences to the man’s friends and family.

The incident comes less than three weeks after two men were killed in separate incidents at workplaces in WA just hours apart.

At least 29 people have died in workplace incidents in Australia so far this year.

Two years after 49 per cent of Woodside shareholders rejected its plans to do business in a warming climate, Australia’s largest oil and gas company again faces its owners at this morning’s annual general meeting at Crown Perth.

The consensus is that its revised climate plan, released in February, will not be enough to avoid a stronger rejection than the record no vote in 2022.

Protesters outside the Woodside AGM at Crown Perth. Credit: Peter Milne

Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive Kelly O’Shanassy said the foundation worked with many companies and were transitioning to a future without carbon emissions.

“Woodside and Santos are companies that just not interested in the net-zero future,” she said.

Woodside’s annual general meeting will get underway at 10am with chair Richard Goyder expected to be re-elected.

Protesters at Woodside’s AGM on Wednesday morning. Credit: Peter Milne

If you’re just waking up, you’ve already missed your chance to take part in a dawn disco at Scarborough beach this morning at 5.30am. The event is the second of its kind, and is growing in popularity.

But don’t worry, 9 News Perth reporter and dance extraordinaire Sarah Smith has done the hard yards for you.

Sport Integrity Australia is reportedly probing the death of a former Melbourne and Fremantle player as part of its investigation into the AFL’s illicit drug policy.

Harley Balic died in January 2022, days after his 25th birthday.

Harley Balic warming up before a Dockers match in 2017. Credit: Getty

Two people close to Balic, who would not speak publicly because of the sensitivities of his case, have confirmed to this masthead that he battled drug addiction, anxiety and mental health issues.

The Herald Sun reported on Wednesday that Balic’s case was referenced in a statement made by former Melbourne doctor Zeeshan Arain, which was handed to Sport Integrity Australia by federal MP Andrew Wilkie last month, and that Dr Arain had been interviewed by SIA investigators.

The Herald Sun reported that Dr Arain said in his statement: “Often list management is used to solve a lot of problems.

“It gets to the point where they (AFL clubs) are like, ‘Well, if we can’t help this player, we will move them on.’

“And the problem is that the player doesn’t cease to exist to be a person once they are not in your club, the duty of care still goes on.

“Take Harley Balic, for example. A few years after Harley Balic left the Melbourne Football Club, he was dead related to drug use.”

Sport Integrity Australia announced in March it would investigate allegations around illicit drug tests in the AFL, following accusations made in parliament by Wilkie.

Wilkie claimed in the House of Representatives that club doctors were conducting tests in the week leading up to a match on players who had previously failed an illicit drug test for banned substances to avoid running foul of anti-doping rules and risking long bans from the sport.

Read more here.

One of Western Australia’s most well-known residential builders Collier Homes has become the latest casualty of the construction boom, collapsing after more than six decades in operation.

In a notice published late on Tuesday, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission advised the 65-year-old entity would be wound up.

Collier Homes has become the latest casualty of the construction boom.Credit: Facebook

Rob Brauer and Linda Smith of McGrath Nicol have been appointed liquidators and handed control of the business.

The company’s financial position and the cause of its collapse are not yet clear.

But a note on Collier Homes’ website implies it was struggling amid issues underpinned by “well-intentioned” COVID era stimulus, including supply shortages, labour constraints and cost escalations.

It is understood the company’s building registration had expired and was formally cancelled in 2023.

The news comes just eight years after the company was rescued from the brink of collapse via a partnership with US-based Lindal Cedar Homes, a major builder of prefabricated and sustainable homes.

Collier Homes was founded by Raymond McCarthy in 1959, with experienced builder Dario Amara leading an entity which had purchased the rights to the household name in 2017.