One of our Members, Ruth Scharley, has some very welcome news: Our new KKA fauna education boards are an exciting initiative designed to promote the work of Friends Groups while sparking interest in our parklands and encouraging new members to… Read More »KKA Fauna Posters
The State Government has announced that a significant amendment to the Planning Controls for Waterways has been approved by the Minister for Planning and will take effect in late January, 2026. The amendment introduces a series of Significant Landscape Overlays… Read More »New Planning Protections for KooyongKoot
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Katie Allen just prior to Christmas. Katie was a big supporter of the KKA and the Friends groups in her time serving as MHR for the former electorate of Higgins.… Read More »Sad news…
Our President, Rex Dusting, posts the following message to all friends of the KKA: KooyongKoot Alliance’s 2025 As we reach the end of 2025, we can look back on our efforts to improve the health of the KooyongKoot (Gardiners) Creek… Read More »President’s Christmas Message 2025
One of our member groups has sent us an interesting photo taken this month along KooyongKoot which shows a juvenile male Gang-gang Cockatoo – presumably with his mother. The upper part of an adult male’s head is normally completely bright… Read More »Endangered Cockatoos find refuge in the catchment
The KooyongKoot Alliance (KKA) and its members brought together an impressive gathering of community groups, environmental advocates and local residents on Saturday 29th November for the Boroondara KooyongKoot Clean Waterways Expo. Despite a soggy start, the event proved a solid… Read More »Clean Waterways Expo Makes a Splash Despite Wet Weather
Pam Welsford was KKA secretary from the inaugural KKA meeting until this year’s AGM. She and her partner made the decision to relocate westwards to Fairhaven – perhaps swapping Painkalac Creek for KooyongKoot ! Pam’s can-do attitude, versatility and hard… Read More »Thanks again Pam !
A summary from the Annual General Meeting held November 11 2025, reporting on the 2024-2025 financial year. The AGM was very successful and well attended by members and friends of the KKA. 2024/5 was a very successful year for the… Read More »A Big Year for Our Community
The Caroline Chisholm Volunteer Awards acknowledge the great contributions by extraordinary volunteers in the Federal Electorate of Chisholm. Caroline Chisholm (1808 – 1877), a remarkable volunteer of her time, assisted thousands of Australian immigrants, mainly women and girls, find work… Read More »Caroline Chisholm Award
Communities are perhaps becoming more connected to their local waterways more than any time in the last 50 years. Relentless urbanisation, Covid and climate change are making us appreciate our green and blue spaces more than ever and we are… Read More »Waterways as “living, integrated natural entities”