Friday 24 January:
Lakeland Senior High School is one of 21 schools to share in $88,608 grants that promote Aboriginal cultural understanding in classrooms across Western Australia.
The South Lake School will receive $2,500 from the WA Government's 2024-25 Term 4 round of Partnership Acceptance Learning Sharing (PALS) grants. Students will work with a community organisation to develop a cultural performance telling a story through dance that will be performed in 2025 NAIDOC Week.
Thursday 23 January:
There hasn’t been a watering hole in Jandakot since the controversial closure of its former golf course and associated bar and restaurant The Iris in 2020.
Five years on there are plans to open something akin to popular bistro Karalee on Preston as part of a proposed Glen Iris local centre.
See the City’s full media response on our
website.
The City of Cockburn has reinstated the Australia Day reference at the beginning of the Coogee Beach Festival name after “feedback” from its elected members.
See the City’s full media response on our
website.
The Dockers playing and coaching group spent Wednesday afternoon volunteering their time at St Patrick’s Community Support Centre, handing out refreshments to those in need and receiving a tour of the Fremantle facility.
The visit coincides with a $20,000 donation to the not-for-profit from the Fremantle Players’ Community Charitable Fund, providing the St Pat’s campaign with a head start in raising vital funds for the fit-out of its new Engagement Hub.
Wednesday 22 January:
The City of Cockburn has welcomed a $20m funding commitment from a re-elected Cook Labor State Government that would integrate the existing Wally Hagan Basketball Stadium into a multipurpose sports and recreation hub in Hamilton Hill.
WA Labor has committed to a $700 million widening of the Kwinana Freeway from Roe Highway to Mortimer Road, but wants the federal government to tip in half the cost.
Another lane would be added southbound between Roe Highway and Berrigan Drive, expanding the freeway to five lanes, and another lane would be added from Russell Road to Beeliar Drive, taking it to four lanes.
Monday 20 January:
In its third year, our school holiday Footy Splash, in partnership with Fremantle Dockers, was a hit on Monday as about 2,500 people visited the City’s award-winning Cockburn ARC to splashdown with their footy heroes.
Some of the faces on show included our Mayor and West Perth Football Club diehard Logan Howlett (pictured) and Dockers players Liam Reidy, Cooper Simpson, Josh Draper, Mayor Logan Howlett, Jack Delean, Hugh Davies and Ollie Murphy.
There’s always heaps on offer for kids at Cockburn ARC. Find out more on the
website.
The first test trains have run on Perth's first east-west line connection, the Metronet Thornlie-Cockburn Link.
The 17.5-kilometre METRONET Thornlie-Cockburn Link project includes two new stations, at Nicholson Road and Ranford Rd, and upgrades to the Thornlie and Cockburn Central stations.
Friday 17 January:
The WA Government has delivered on its commitment to close out the destructive Roe 8 and 9 Perth Freight Link project with the finalisation of an amendment to the Metropolitan Region Scheme - meaning this road can no longer go ahead.
Get ready for Little and Loud, a mini arts festival for mega family fun on 31 January and 1 February!
Join us at Memorial Hall, Hamilton Hill for a weekend of fun, laughter, and creativity that celebrates families, children, and the performing arts.
A stellar line-up of free entertainment at Coogee Live 2025 is guaranteed to make the nationally award-winning community festival an experience to remember, especially with a grant of $85,000 from Lotterywest.
The theme of this year’s two-day family-friendly beachfront event is ‘Experience’ and the grant will help stage nearly 200 activities and experiences along 1.5km of Coogee coast on 8-9 March 2025.
Two Cockburn community groups, Harvest Lakes Residents Association (HLRA) and Yangebup Family Centre (YFC), will share in $255,000 of WasteSorted Community Education Grants, that will help 19 businesses, not-for-profits, local governments, and community groups make landfill the last resort.
A grant of $16,685 will help YFC to hold wastewise workshops sharing creative ways to reduce food and textile waste.
A $7,125 grant will enable HLRA to focus on community waste education to reduce single-use plastics at four clothing and toy swap and community meet-up events.