What made the news in Cockburn – 30 May-6 June 2025

Friday 6 June:
Lifelong community worker, tireless volunteer Maureen Fisher-Sim (nee Ottey), is the deserving recipient of the City of Cockburn’s 2025 WA Day Award.

A new month-long arts festival in Hamilton Hill is set to banish the winter blues. Held in the historic Memorial Hall on Carrington Street, the debut Makuru Festival features an exciting mix of live music, theatre, film, visual arts and even “ambient yoga immersion”.

Fremantle have locked in senior coach Lisa Webb for another two seasons, just weeks out from the club’s 2025 AFLW campaign.

Thursday 5 June:
More than $1000 for a council dinner including three bottles of wine at $70 each, $280 for four bottles of champagne for a celebration and an off-site meeting with wine and oysters are some of the expenses exposed by an Auditor General investigation into local government spending.
See the City’s full media response on our website.

City of Cockburn Libraries in partnership with Curtin University has begun a pilot project with Social Work students stationed at Success Library two days a week to help people needing support.

Wednesday 4 June:
The teen behind the wheel in the horror crash that killed young footballer Nick Campo has learned his fate, with the judge saying the circumstances made the tragedy “all but inevitable”.
The driver reached 133km/h on North Lake Road and was seen driving through a red light before the tragedy unfolded.

Tuesday 3 June:
STS Leeuwin II has docked at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson for repairs following devastating damage caused by a wayward container ship at Victoria Quay, Fremantle in August 2024.

$485.5m has been allocated to deliver upgrades on four key roads in Perth's southern suburbs. It includes $460m to widen Kwinana Freeway between Roe Highway and Mortimer Road, addressing one of the worst congestion points on the freeway network.

Bushland News, a Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions publication, has featured a three-page spread about abundant, diverse and rarely seen fauna recorded in annual surveys at bushland reserves managed by the City of Cockburn.