What made the news in Cockburn – 2-9 July 2021

Friday, 9 July: At Cockburn Council’s Ordinary Council Meeting on Thursday 8 July, the Council adopted several recommendations, including investigating a suitable on-lead beach area for dogs via community consultation. For more information, see the Agenda opens in a new window. Please note that due to Council decisions, some items that appear in the Agenda may not have been carried as recommended. Updated decisions will be detailed in the Minutes in the City’s website opens in a new windowonce published in about 10 working days.

The southern suburbs bore the brunt of Perth’s latest winter deluge on Friday afternoon with more than 40 calls, the majority from Hamilton Hill and Rockingham, made to the State Emergency Services within an hour of the storm front hitting the metropolitan area at 1pm. opens in a new window

City of Fremantle councillor Frank Mofflin has entered the mayoral race, saying he intends to look “outwards” to explore collaboration with neighbouring councils – even if that means revisiting the bruising “what are the boundaries of Fremantle” debate. opens in a new window Cr Mofflin said: “It is about us sitting down with Cockburn, sitting down with Melville, sitting down with East Fremantle and saying ‘how do we, as a group of local governments, ensure that all people in this region are getting the best services possible. “It’s not a good outcome if some local governments are sitting there with huge surpluses, and other local government areas are not able to deliver the services that they should be.”

In an Opinion piece, 2009 recipient of the National Arts and Health Leadership Award, Lindsay Lovering, says the people of Fremantle and Cockburn should demand South Fremantle Power Station remains a public asset. opens in a new window

Thursday, 8 July: The State Government is close to making a decision on a mooted wave park on land it owns in Jandakot, not far from Cockburn Central which is an emerging regional centre for the Perth Southern Metro region. opens in a new window The City of Cockburn welcomes the WA Government process to select a preferred developer for a world class wave park.

Since La Paleta established its commercial kitchen in Bibra Lake in 2012, staff took all the company’s food waste home for garden composting but that all changed last August when it signed up to the City of Cockburn’s commercial food waste trial. opens in a new window The company has now sent more than seven tonnes to Richgro’s anaerobic digestion plant in Jandakot to help produce high-quality biofertiliser, first as a trial participant and now as a customer of the City’s permanent service.   Tuesday, 6 July:  Based out of Cockburn Ice Arena, a unique inclusive and accessible ice hockey league is enabling people with disability and able-bodied athletes to take to the ice at the same time. opens in a new window Ice Hockey WA’s year-old ice sledge hockey league creates a level playing field, with players all using the same equipment: a sled and two sticks, one a hockey stick and the other with spikes to allow competitors to push themselves around.