Cockatoo, Australia News

Pimp my tuk-tuk Four garishly decorated tuk-tuks drove through town last Thursday night in a Globalteer "Pimp my tuk-tuk" fundraiser rally that earned US$278 for Globalteer Community Development Centre, New Hope Community Centre and Anjali House.

Emerald's Emese Latter will no longer walk her dog Czar in the hills. She is calling for more dog patrols.

TWO distinctive paintings by Australian David Boyd - the brother of Arthur - have been pinched from a Canberra gallery, the second art heist in as many months.

CARDINIA'S young people will be able to hop aboard the council's mobile youth bus for a range of fun activities these school holidays.

Industrial sublime ... Cockatoo Island houses a thriving arts scene, with musicians including Nick Cave playing there.

FORMER navy cook John Oxley has little sympathy for the Australian soldiers in Afghanistan who recently complained about the food served by Dutch chefs at their base.

More than 20 schools in the hills and surrounding suburbs last Tuesday received grants in round two of the Primary Schools for the 21st Century program.

BLACK Saturday could have been much worse if fires that threatened to overwhelm the Dandenongs and Narre Warren were not controlled.

As a followup to a comment to the IPBiz post Cockatoo confusion in Trenton. Luna. Lex and Howard.

INTEREST rates, unemployment and deployment of Australia's troops were the issues which locals pressed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd about when he touched down in Emerald on Tuesday last week.

AN AUSTRALIAN cockatoo gave a decorator a shock at a house in Blakedown when it flew down and landed on the mana s shoulder.

Dismantled pianos, rocks suspended in the air and ghost-like dolls - these are some of the hallmarks of one of Australia's most celebrated sculptors, Ken Unsworth.

Cockatoo RSL sub-branch president Bob Simmonds last week questioned the need for a continued presence in Afghanistan.

A beautiful assortment of birds, in different colors, sizes and abilities, visited Shirkey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday afternoon, May 13.

Opposing the council's draft budget, Cr Chatwin last week said the program had again neglected the shire's rural areas, particularly the hills.

The rescue of a drowning kangaroo off the Gold Coast in Australia has been captured on mobile phone.

Caption: Sir Richard Branson Picture and partner The official launch party for `V Australia' on Cockatoo Island Sydney, Australia .... Hollywood campaigner Mia Farrow has ended a 12-day hunger strike over the plight of people in Darfur on doctor's orders.

Right: A large number of community groups received grants from the Upwey and District Community Bank last year.

9NEWS Anchor Kyle Dyer introduced us to some beautiful Pink Cockatoos from Australia.

A Royal Navy engineer in Cornwall delivered his baby son after watching a instructional video on YouTube.