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Ellie Whiteaker is a political party official in Western Australia.[1] She is the first female Party Secretary of the WA State Branch of the Australian Labor Party.
Eleanor Elizabeth Margaret (Ellie) Whiteaker was born in Kalamunda, Western Australia. As a small child she moved with her family to Kalgoorlie, where she completed her primary school education.
Whiteaker attended high school at Comet Bay College, in Rockingham's Secret Harbour.[2]
She attended the University of Western Australia.[3] While a student, she was president of WA Young Labor.[citation needed]
Whiteaker formerly worked as a campaign organiser for UnionsWA, as an organiser for the AMWU, and as an adviser to Senator Louise Pratt.[citation needed]
In 2018, she was elected Assistant State Secretary to the WA State Branch of the ALP. She was re-elected in 2021, and then assumed position of State Secretary upon resignation of the incumbent Tim Picton.[citation needed]
She is married to David Scaife, the MLA for Cockburn.[4]
