AdvertisementNationalWAWA courts ‘A bizarre case’: WA’s deputy premier provides evidence in long-standing defamation trial Holly Thompson Updated July 31, 2026 — 3:07pm ,first published July 31, 2026 — 3:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti speaks to the media outside the WA Supreme Court. Rita Saffioti after leaving court. Outside court, Saffioti said it had been “a bizarre day, a bizarre case.” That meeting is when Poland claimed he had given Kelly the idea while providing evidence last week.