You may be eligible to be enrolled to vote in the local government elections on 18 October 2025 if you live in or are an owner or occupier of rateable property in the City of Cockburn.
Repair crews are working as quickly as possible to address each reported pothole.
Ordinary Council Meeting scheduled for Tuesday 9 September 2025, has now been rescheduled to Tuesday 2 September 2025.
From mid-June to mid-July, bin collection days are changing for select areas across Cockburn.
Essential breakwater and groyne works underway late April through August.
The new Public Waste Drop-Off service on Dalison avenue is closed on Wednesdays.
On Thursday 20 February, the public waste drop-off moved to Dalison Avenue.
The reuse shop will be closed on Sundays. The shop is still open Friday and Saturday.
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The natives have a tradition that Rottnest, Carnac, and Garden Island, once formed part of the mainland, and that the intervening ground was thickly covered with trees; which took fire in some unaccountable way, and burned with such intensity that the ground split asunder with a great noise, and the sea rushed in between, cutting off these islands from the mainland.1
The Derbal Nara coastline has undergone many changes in the last 8,000 years. To learn more visit A Changing Coastline.