Brianna Hindle

Mixed Farming Project Officer

Mob: 0457 064 777

Email: projects@wmgroup.org.au

Brianna grew up on a farm east of Ballidu where her family runs an intensive piggery, sheep and cropping program. She has a Bachelor in Agricultural Business Management with Charles Sturt University in Northam. Brianna is particularly interested in ways of incorporating sheep enterprise back into the farming industry to further develop the positive aspects of having livestock and cropping enterprises within a farming business.

Chris O’Callaghan

Midlands Biosecurity Group Coordinator

Email: research@wmgroup.org.au

Chris has worked in the Agricultural Industry professionally for 12 years. He was the Liebe Group R&D Co-ordinator and Executive Officer for eight years and has held roles in database development, safety management plan development, trial reporting and farm planning. In 2016, Chris was the WMG Acting Executive Officer, before re-joining the group as the R&D Co-ordinator in April 2018. Due to growing concerns around feral pest management in the region, the Midlands Biosecurity Group was developed in 2019 of which Chris is the Coordinator. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a Graduate Certificate in Business. Chris originally hails from Coorow and is still involved in the family mechanical business.

Charles Callaghan

Beef Officer

Mob: 0427 246 846

Email: beefofficer@wmgroup.org.au

Charles Callaghan hails from a small country town located 35kms south of Wagga Wagga called Mangoplah in NSW where is his family are third generation producers. He studied at Charles Sturt University’s Wagga campus completing a Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management from 2016-2018 and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in 2019. Charles joined the WMG team in mid-March, taking on the role of Beef Officer for the BeefLinks Backgrounding project. The project aims to increase the gross value of the backgrounding industry in the Northern Agricultural region of WA through increasing the volume of cattle being backgrounded each year. He will be working closely with a range of producers and industry stakeholders performing data driven decision making, with the collaborative collection of data leading to a better characterisation of the backgrounding link in the beef supply chain.

Kirra Holley

Communications Officer

Mob: 0417 921 424

Email: comms@wmgroup.org.au

Former Margaret River local, Kirra completed a Journalism Major (BA) at Curtin University in Perth in 2015. Kirra worked for an international property firm and an accounting agency where she gained extensive experience in office administration, marketing and public relations. Kirra moved to Dandaragan in early 2018 and is enjoying learning about and working within the agricultural industry.

Brinley Porter

Administration Office

Mob: 0428 391 

Email: admin@wmgroup.org.au

Long-time local, Brinley’s family are fourth generation Moora farmers. Brinley studied music and became a music teacher as there were more than enough brothers to take on the family farm. Brinley worked in Local Government Administration for a few years in Dandaragan, then left the workforce to become a mum. After focusing on her two beautiful children as a stay at home mum, Brinley is now back in the workforce and enjoying being involved in the agricultural industry.