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Parks and Beaches

Back by popular demand: Lifeguards kickstart summer with extra beach patrols.

December 8, 2024

Randwick Lifeguards Expand Patrols for a Safer Summer at Local Beaches Beachgoers can enjoy a safer swimming season as Randwick City Council Lifeguards kickstart their summer patrols at more Sydney beaches. Starting Saturday, 30 November, lifeguards will be on duty at Little Bay Beach and Malabar Beach during daylight hours until the end of summer. These new patrols include jet ski water safety teams based at Malabar, covering nearby popular swimming spots like Yarra Bay Beach and Frenchmans Bay Beach. For the 2023-2024 summer season, patrols have resumed at Malabar Beach for the first time since 2004 and commenced at…

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Community

Dylan Parker returns as Mayor of Randwick

October 9, 2024

Labor Councillor and former Randwick Mayor Dylan Parker has been elected Mayor of Randwick. Randwick Councillors formally voted Mayor Parker into office at their first Council Meeting tonight, 8 October 2024, following the general council elections last month. Mayor Parker was elected by a vote of nine to six and will serve alongside his Labor colleague, Councillor Marea Wilson, who was elected Deputy Mayor. Mayor Parker said that he is honoured to be returned to the role he served in between September 2021 and September 2023. In 2021 Mayor Parker, at the time, was the youngest Mayor in New South…

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Inspiration

New Life for Old Bikes

August 3, 2023

Have you got an unwanted bike you would like to recycle or donate to someone? Would you ride your bike more if someone checked it for you? If you are a Randwick Council resident and you answered yes to either question, bring your bike along to Randwick Sustainability Hub at 27 Munda Street Randwick between the hours of 9am and 1pm on 19 August 2023. Randwick Council is offering to: take your unwanted bike away to save it from landfill reuse, recycle or donate for others to use check and tune* your bike – just book in to one of the 12 minute sessions…

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For Mums

Women at the ‘art’ of the matter this International Women’s Day

March 8, 2022

Randwick Council will celebrate International Women’s Day with several events, including an exhibition, a film screening and talk for Randwick staff, which all celebrate the art and voices of women. “This year’s International Women’s Day theme – Break the Bias – is a great reminder that we need to remove the seen and unseen barriers for women and work towards creating equity in our community and in our workplaces,” said Randwick Deputy Mayor Kym Chapple. “It asks us all to recognise that unconscious biases do exist and to question assumptions so that we don’t maintain the status quo. It’s a…

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