Cockatoo, Australia News

Cardinia Foundation CEO Di Padgett with Bunyip Scouts Tennyson and Olivia. TWELVE local groups received some Christmas cheer on Tuesday, each receiving $1000 from the Cardinia Foundation.

Less than a year after choosing Perth as the site of its global exploration headquarters, US miner Cliffs Natural Resources is expanding in Australia with plans to move beyond its traditional iron ore and coal focus.

A MOUNTED policeman draws his pistol and takes aim at the fleeing figure of Frederick Ward.

A SEVERE tropical cyclone was gathering force off Australia's north-west coast on Wednesday, forcing residents to take shelter as it unleashed highly destructive winds, officials said.

According to a report from catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, "severe Tropical Cyclone Laurence made a second landfall this evening [Dec. 16] along the Kimberley coast of north Western Australia State.

This NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite 3-D image shows thunderstorm tops reaching about 9.3 miles high in various sides of Cyclone Laurence .

Tropical cyclone Laurence continues to intensify with destructive gusts reaching 260kmh as it moves closer to Western Australia's Kimberley coast.

RESIDENTS along the Western Australia's Kimberley coast are being urged to take shelter as the destructive winds of tropical cyclone Laurence slam into the shore.

Cockatoo's Janine Arlove saved the life of her beloved dog Jasmine by administering mouth-to-snout resuscitation.

Cockatoo's Meaghan Kollmorgen fears the town is a death trap waiting to happen. MEAGHAN Kollmorgen fears Cockatoo will be a death trap this summer.

STATE Opposition leader Ted Baillieu was in Pakenham this week to promote his man for Gembrook, Brad Battin.

Please join me in welcoming Billy to the Component Factory team. You can see Billy watching over my shoulder as we start our first pair programming exercise to get him up to speed on the Krypton code.

Above: Janine didn't think twice about giving Jasmine mouth to mouth. Right: Janine with Jasmine who she saved from death.

THE Berwick Seniors' club meeting on Friday 30 October was as usual full of laughs and goodwill.

WOOLWORTH'S representatives say they have no plans to deny any particular shopkeepers rental in their development.

A COCKATOO woman who brought her beloved pooch back from the dead is singing the praises of doggy CPR.

COCKATOO residents have received a $10,000 step up to high quality community health and podiatry services thanks to a State Government funding boost.

RESIDENTS will stop to remember those who lost their lives in World War I next week.

Analyst Report ), the largest producer of iron ore pellets in the U.S., recorded third-quarter 2009 profits of 45 cents, significantly lower than last year's earnings of $1.61 per share, on weak iron volumes and prices.

Network Ten will be sticking to what it knows best in 2010. The network unveiled its program line-up for 2010 with a party on Sydney's Cockatoo Island on Thursday night, revealing it'll be counting on this year's hit shows and confirming the return of some of 2009's lesser performing ones.