ICAC Operation Navarra LIVE updates: Ousted Parramatta Council CEO Gail Connolly set to appear

03 Jun 2026, 23:30 by Anthony Segaert, Ellie Busby · WAtoday

7.15am

What we’ve heard so far

Gail Connolly has been mentioned every day at this hearing. So far, the ICAC has heard evidence that Connolly and her friends, Roxanne Thornton and Angela Jones-Blayney, called themselves the Pink Ladies.

The Pink Ladies, also made up of other women in local government, went on holiday together and connected extensively over a common interest in netball.

One of the pink ladies, Roxanne Thornton, breaks down during her evidence earlier in this inquiry.

Connolly, according to Counsel Assisting Joanna Davidson SC’s opening address, was behind an anonymous email sent to discredit a former staff member running for council.

She gave approval for the reading of emails of a staff member who had made confidential bullying complaints through a whistle-blowing system, a current staff member said.