What made the news in Cockburn – 19-26 September 2025

Friday 26 September:
The City’s response to 6PR Rumour File about alleged parking fines issued at South Coogee Primary School.

Long-serving Mooba Cafe in Cockburn Central will be forced to close next week after being handball between local and state government departments.
See the City’s full media response on our website.

Cockburn mayoral candidates Phil Eva and Phoebe Corke have jumped out of the blocks with WA’s new compulsory preferential voting to offer each other their secondary votes.

Even in this virtual age, a well-organised protest with foot soldiers is still one of the best ways to irk authorities and engender change. Cockburn has a rich history of protesting stretching back to 1830, when Nyungar leader Midgegooroo and the Beeliar people resisted the European colonisation that threatened Beeliar Boodjar in the early 1830s.

A proposal to allow more than 700 homes to be built close to the Jandakot water mound has been opposed by the City of Cockburn.

Thursday 25 September:
Many campaigns of passion and protest have taken place in Cockburn since Nyungar leader Midgegooroo and the Beeliar people resisted the European colonisation that threatened Beeliar Boodjar in the early 1830s.

Dozens of WA voters have reported receiving bungled postal voting packages ahead of next month's local government elections in WA in the latest headache for the West Australian Electoral Commission.
A member of a residents group that takes in suburbs within the City of Rockingham was wrongly sent a ballot paper for the mayoral election in the City of Cockburn.

Murphy Reid will be hoping to add more accolades to his collection before he returns from Melbourne, with the Fremantle Rising Star set to take part in the grand final sprint on Saturday.

Tuesday 23 September:
ABC Perth Radio Breakfast presenter Mark Gibson interviewed City of Cockburn Director Sustainable Development and Safety, Dan Arndt.
t followed an interview with Mooba Café owner Mark Dillon whose temporary lease on a privately-owned lot in Cockburn Central has expired to make way for construction of an eight-storey apartment/commercial development (from 1:45).
See the City’s full media response on our website.

With new projects set to cost as much as $70b earmarked for Perth’s south west corridor, including works associated with AUKUS and the Henderson defence precinct, the region is about to embark on one of the biggest development phases in WA history.

Two "cowardly" teenage boys who used a dating app to target gay men in violent ambushes, including one victim who was tasered and had teeth knocked out, have been sentenced to juvenile detention. Some of the attacks took place at South Lake and Hamilton Hill.

Monday 22 September:
Proposed boundaries for a massive new Defence site at Henderson to support AUKUS have not been finalised despite the expected deployment of US nuclear submarines to Western Australia in two years.

Fremantle young gun Murphy Reid has won the 2025 Telstra Rising Star Award.