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Cooks River Rescue Prize 2018 winner announced

A beautiful work reflecting cracks in mudflats and our gaps in knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal culture has won the 2018 Cooks River Rescue Prize.   It was one of many incredible sculptures dotting Kyeemagh’s Cook Park landscape for...

Cooks River Coastal Management Program under way

The Cooks River Alliance will begin a scoping study for the first Cooks River Catchment Coastal Management Program from early 2018 thanks to funding from the NSW Government. The management of the Cooks River catchment is currently fragmented across...

Landing Lights Wetland

Landing Lights Wetland Restoration

Landing Lights Wetland Restoration   Bayside Council has recently completed a 3 year intensive on ground restoration project at Landing Lights wetland. As part of the Cooks River Alliance On-ground Works Program, the Alliance provided funding and assistance to Bayside...

The River Starts at your Place

There are over 500,000 residents living and/or working in the Cooks River catchment which covers an area of around 100km2. Some people live right by the river and some not at all. But regardless of proximity to the river,...

Cooks River Culture and Country event

Thank you to everyone who attended the Cooks River Culture and Country event We hope you enjoyed the day and learning more about Aboriginal connections to the Cooks River. A soft copy of the Aboriginal History Along the Cooks...

Three black Aboriginal totem poles with orange and red markings including hand prints

Aboriginal Connections with the Cooks River

Aboriginal people have lived along the Cooks River for more than a thousand generations, watching the lower river slowly take form over many millennia. The clans of the valley were known as the Wangal, Cadigal and Gameygal, ‘gal’ meaning...