“I DON’T think my heart is in it anymore,” Geoff Van Waardenberg says before starting his night shift surveying rail lines out of Perth. “I find it hard to talk about Cossack, I’m so disappointed. It’s killed us.” The 49-year-old…
RETIRED medico Alan Wilson, 73, says all there is of Cossack is its history. “There are not too many places in Australia where you have nothing but the history of a town,” Dr Wilson said of the heritage-listed townsite 1500km…
LOCAL council has walked away. The State Government moves in as ‘absent landlord’. And private landowners once again find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Do they sell out or hang on in the hope they be able,…
THEY have paid rates, fees and government charges for decades. Occasionally, they stand on their empty blocks overlooking Butcher’s Inlet at the mouth of the Harding River, and ask why. What is the point of waiting any longer for local…
THE City of Karratha will walk away from managing historic Cossack and Jarman Island after councillors tonight voted to ‘hand the keys back’ to the State Government. The unanimous vote followed a brief discussion on whether the City was prepared…
COSSACK landowners today called on WA parliament to explain why they cannot develop their freehold properties after two decades of promises to repopulate the historic town near Karratha. Greens Mining and Pastoral Region MLC Robin Chapple, in questions to Regional…
REFUGEE housing, military infrastructure and federal assistance to stop “homes falling into the sea” are high on Port Hedland’s COAG wish list. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, state and territory premiers and ministers will visit the Pilbara in July when the…
FIREBRAND Independent Marija Vujcic wasted no time chastising councillors over the Kings Square hospitality deal before she successfully convinced council to consider her motion for an independent probity audit. That was just the warm up, the South Ward councillor having…
FREO CEO Philip St John has called on staff to identify a man who allegedly hit a council officer as he left the rowdy chamber meeting last night. In a confidential email circulated to staff and elected members this afternoon,…
COUNCIL attempts to justify its Kings Square hospitality lease deal raise serious questions over why it offered a ‘consortium’ of local businessmen $1.3 million in inducements including three years free rent. StreetWise last week sent questions to the City following…
