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”
The 2025 planting season for the KooyongKoot Alliance (KKA) and its members has come to an end. But KooyongKoot is very much alive and members are still working very hard. In a record-breaking year, to 30th June 2025, it is… Read More »Planting Season report
Friends of South Surrey Park has proudly completed its 30th planting season. This winter, nearly 2000 seedlings were planted along Back Creek, helping to restore habitat for small birds and strengthen the park’s biodiversity. As always, the year began with… Read More »🌿30 Years of Planting at South Surrey Park🌿
Damper Creek is a tributary of KooyongKoot (Gardiners) Creek. Our friends from the Damper Creek Conservation Reserve in Mt Waverley have set us a copy of their September Newsletter which you can access here. It’s a great round-up of their… Read More »Damper Creek Doings