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Recent media interest in aquatic facilities within the City of Busselton has compared our facilities alongside local governments with populations twice our current size (Rockingham, Mandurah and Greater Bunbury Region). The City’s aquatic facilities have also been compared to legacy pools built by rural inland communities decades ago for populations that have no access to the coast. Many of these are now closed or have restricted opening hours as councils struggle to afford to operate and staff them.

SUP Life Busselton will be hosting an all-inclusive come and try day as part of the City’s Harmony Day celebrations. SUP Life Busselton will be available for people with disabilities to have a go at paddle boarding at the Busselton foreshore on Sunday 19 March 2023 from 9.00am to 12.00pm. Sand play and a sausage sizzle will also be available.

The City of Busselton and Rio Tinto continue to work together to deliver valuable youth services across the region, celebrating 10 years of running a 12 month youth-focused trainee program. The City welcomes Sinead Saylor as its tenth new youth development trainee. This important role is funded in partnership with Rio Tinto.

New camping facilities have been developed at Southern Stars Holiday Park in Dunsborough for the specific purpose of providing much-needed seasonal worker accommodation in 2023-24.

As part of today’s Australia Day celebrations, both Busselton and Dunsborough held a Citizenship Ceremony and presented Community Citizen of the Year Awards.

Mayor Henley visited FAWNA Inc. and its Possum Finishing School today, where some of Busselton’s Black Swan cygnets have been admitted and cared for by volunteers.

Do you love living in the South West, surrounded by beautiful bushland? Are you passionate about the environment and want to leave a positive legacy for future generations?

The City of Busselton is excited to announce that a permit has been approved for Neuron Mobility to operate e-scooters in Busselton on a 12 month trial.

Since 2012, the City has been growing Dunsborough’s public art collection through an acquisitive prize at Sculpture by the Bay.

Busselton production ‘Beyond the Vasse’ was one of four West Australian creative projects to share in $557, 535 in grant funding to create performances in regional WA.

Be inspired by some of our local birds and animals from one of WA’s newest artist collectives - WA Wildlife Art.

Another successful project complete as part of the community led initiative and the City’s ‘You Choose’ Community Funding program budget.

The City of Busselton Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Tony Nottle as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the City of Busselton.

The foreshore at West Busselton, like many areas along the Geographe Bay foreshore, has been subject to foredune erosion. There are narrow buffers to infrastructure and recovery of eroded foredunes following northerly winter storms occurs but is a relatively slow process.

The City has been awarded the 2022 Planning Institute of Australia (WA) Award for Climate Change and Resilience.

This bushfire season the City of Busselton will be trialling a new SMS notification system to advise community members when a Harvest and Vehicle Movement Ban is being issued.

Following extensive consultation with stakeholders, Aboriginal Advisory group and local community, City of Busselton Councillors have endorsed the venue name: Saltwater.

The City has identified an opportunity to deliver a flexible broader range of free online learning options for community members to assist them in both their professional and personal growth for our youth, aged and unemployed.

City of Busselton is supporting young people and communities across the City with a new youth space in Dunsborough.

Once upon a time there was a door in the Exercise Yard of the Old Busselton Courthouse. When the yard was in use, people ‘staying’ sometimes scratched their initials into it and we want to hear those stories!

The City of Busselton has released a budget “for the times” balancing economic restraint with investments that will cater to the region’s future.

Busselton’s Annual Student Exchange Program with its Sister City Sugito (Japan) may not have been possible for the last two years due to Covid and travel restrictions but the Busselton and Sugito Sister Cities Association (BASSCA) has ensured that local students still get to experience the unique Japanese Culture.

Through the collaboration of the Injidup Residents Association and funding from both Lotterywest and the City of Busselton, the Wardan Aboriginal Centre in Injidup has seen a comprehensive fire security program put in place. This includes a state of the art fire sprinkler system across all buildings.

City of Busselton Mayor Grant Henley has accepted the resignation of CEO Mike Archer who will be taking on the role of CEO for Shellharbour City Council in NSW.  

The City is pleased to announce it has entered into a lease arrangement with the South West Aboriginal Medical Service as the successful proponent under an expression of interest for a campsite at Locke Estate, Siesta Park.

The City of Busselton’s partnership with Rio Tinto continues to go from strength to strength, with Rio Tinto doubling its contribution to the Youth program from $40,000 to $80,000 per annum.

The City has been awarded two Lotterywest grants - $1.8 million for the creation of community spaces within the Busselton Performing Arts and Convention Centre; and $18,000 for an augmented reality project to educate the community on the historical significance of the Ballaarat Engine.

‘The Guardian – Waugul’ is ever-present, moving across Bibbulmun Country, watching over the land he created and the people who followed afterwards, the Bibbulmun people of the South West of Western Australia.

This year the City of Busselton will host several free events during NAIDOC Week, linking to this year’s theme, Get Up. Stand Up. Show Up.

The Busselton RSL have received federal funding to relocate the Busselton War Memorial cenotaph to Rotary Park. A Community Drop-In Information Session will be held from 12-2.00pm, Sunday 26th June. Drop into the RSL on Rosemary Drive to view the concept plans and chat to the committee.