WELCOME EVENT

Date: Friday, 12th September 2025
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Memorial Hall

Welcome event with drinks and finger food.

Register for the conference and catch up with friends and colleagues.

Check out the two exhibitions:

• “Wisdom Keepers: Untold Stories of Cockburn”
• History of Memorial Hall, which celebrates 100 years in 2025

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Date: Saturday, 13th September 2025 & Sunday 14th September.
Time: 8:30am - 2pm
Location: Jakovich Centre

Conference presentations each morning, followed by lunch.

Also check out our exhibition: “Passion and Protest: Cockburn Community Speaks Up”.

Saturday presentations include:

• Midgegooroo, early Whadjuk Nyungar leader in the Cockburn area (Dylan Collard and Mary Blight)
• Growing up in market and flower gardens (Jeanette Paulik, Lorraine Gauce and Rina Lovretta)
• Shipwrecks and Vampires: Cockburn Sound's underwater sites (Dr Ross Anderson)
• Bibra Lake stories (Dr Nandi Chinna and Dr Catherine Baudins)

Sunday presentations include:

• History of Coogee and Coogee Beach (Maeve Harvey)
• Dida Ante's Vino: An enduring Croatian tradition (Erik and Joshua Surjan)
• Murder and the Camel Trade: Fremantle to Karachi, 1896. A tale of avarice, deceit and pursuit (Dr Criena Fitzgerald)
• Wandi Dixon (Dr Michael O'Connor and Dr Denise Cook)
• Cockburn as a Conservation Powerhouse (Professor Andrea Gaynor)

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.

TALES AND TRAILS TOUR - SATURDAY

Date: Saturday, 13th September 2025
Time: 2pm - 4:30pm
Location: All tours leave from and return to the Jakovich Centre

Our museum and environmental guides explore the interaction between history and environment at Azelia Ley Homestead Museum and Manning Park.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a hat.

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.

BIBRA LAKE TOUR - SATURDAY - BOOKED OUT

Date: Saturday, 13th September 2025
Time: 2pm - 4:30pm
Location: All tours leave from and return to the Jakovich Centre

Bibra Lake Wetlands and Nyungar Stories.

Lynnette Coomer talks about her experiences in Nyungar camps in the Perth metro area as well as living at Bibra Lake.

Nandi Chinna shares stories from 30 years of protecting and sharing the history of Bibra Lake at the Wetlands Centre.

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.

CONFERENCE DINNER

Date: Saturday, 13th September 2025
Time: 5:30pm - 9pm
Location: City of Cockburn Administration Building

Canapes and drinks on arrival.

Check out the exhibition: “Nyungar Artworks from the City of Cockburn collection.”

Three-course conference dinner with vegetarian and gluten-free options. Includes wine, beer and soft drink.

Performance by Ross Vegas and Jeannette Friesen, "Dark Corners Immersive History."

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.

EXPLORE COOGEE TOUR - SUNDAY

Date: Sunday, 14th September 2025
Time: 1:45pm - 3:45pm
Location: All tours leave from and return to the Jakovich Centre

Participants will have the opportunity to see the remnants of munitions bunkers and associated rail lines as well as rare stands of Rottnest Island Cypress near the Coogee Surf Lifesaving Club. The tour will pass the reconstructed lime kilns en route to the Coogee Jetty for views of the coastline from Fremantle to Woodman Point.

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.

WOODMAN POINT QUARANTINE STATION TOUR - SUNDAY - BOOKED OUT

Date: Sunday, 14th September 2025
Time: 1:45pm - 3:45pm
Location: All tours leave from and return to the Jakovich Centre

This popular walking tour takes you to the isolation hospital, the oldest crematorium in Australia and more. There are also extensive displays within the heritage buildings.

Since 1851, the site has seen patients with influenza, including the Spanish flu after WWI, leprosy, smallpox, typhus and bubonic plague. It was the main quarantine facility for the state until 1978.

Listen to stories about former patients and staff and their experiences at Woodman Point. All shared by Friends of Woodman Point volunteer guides, many of whom are descended from those staff.

Followed by tea, coffee and cake!

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.

CLOSING DRINKS

Date: Sunday, 14th September 2025
Time: 4pm - 5pm
Location: Jakovich Centre

Wind up with drinks and nibbles back at the Jakovich Centre, 4 McGrath Road Henderson.

Have a final catch up and review of the weekends events with your new collegues and old friends. If you haven't already, check out our Passion and Protest exhiibiton

Nibbles and drinks provided.

For dietary requirements please contact the team via email at [email protected] or via phone on 9411 3306.