What made the news in Cockburn – 10-16 February 2024

Friday 16 February:
At Cockburn Council’s first Ordinary Council Meeting for 2024 held on Tuesday 13 February, the Council adopted several recommendations, including endorsing the Cockburn Sports Hall of Fame 2024 inductees.
For more information, see the Agenda.

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 on the City’s website once published about 10 working days following the meeting.

Back for its second instalment as a part of the 2023-24 Cockburn LIVE event series - Beeliar Sun Sets Success will take place at Success Regional Sporting Facility tomorrow, Saturday 17 February. 
One of Australia’s most iconic Rock legends, Ian Moss, will headline the free concert.
From 5pm, concertgoers can lay out a picnic rug and have a boogie to a stellar line up including Australian bluesman Ash Grunwald, Perth’s own Katy Steele (Little Birdy), and singer-songwriter-producer Boox Kid.

An insightful bunch of Cockburn youngsters will share their unique take on life in an innovative Headphone Verbatim Performance called The Quadrangle in Hamilton Hill next weekend.
Across four shows set to live music at Memorial Hall, actors wearing headphones will listen to interviews recorded with the young participants and speak their words as they hear them, without embellishment.

Wednesday 14 February:
Fremantle Football Club has announced an operating profit of $1.64m for the 2023 financial year.
 
A $114,000 trip for four Perth councillors to travel to Croatia on a European summer visit has been scrapped after the proposal outraged ratepayers.
For information on the Council’s decision to postpone the delegation see the City’s website.

Tuesday 13 February:
Police are urgently searching for a 65-year-old man who has not returned home since Monday. Trevor McGillvray is believed to have left his Landsdale home, with his car last seen in the Coogee area in the afternoon.

Monday 12 February:
Cockburn Council has endorsed the City’s fourth Reconciliation Action Plan since adopting its first – and becoming the first Perth Local Government to do so – in 2011.

Saturday 10 February:
Thousands of WA homeowners plagued by devastating flooding and leaks from a defective plumbing product, including some from Cockburn suburbs, have been kept in the dark on their rights to full replacement of the piping.