Media Releases

More than a thousand schoolchildren are expected to join other Mosman residents lining the streets for this year’s Festival of Mosman opening event, the HMAS Penguin Freedom of Entry parade. Students from all schools in the area have been invited to attend the event to cheer on Royal Australian Navy personnel as they march through the streets.

New Mayor Carolyn Corrigan has welcomed today’s official announcement of Mosman Council’s election results and her confirmation as Mosman’s popularly elected Mayor for the next Council term.

The 88 artworks to be exhibited as finalists for the 2017 Mosman Art Prize exhibition have been announced, including works by Anh Do, Wendy Sharpe, Clara Adolphs, Alan Jones and Khaled Sabsabi as well as Mosman artists Ken Done and Jumaadi.

Twenty eight community groups received a welcome boost to their programs and services through the presentation of community grants by Mosman Council.

Mosman Council has successfully negotiated an additional 30 public parking spaces in the former cinema site as well as $1.8m funding for a range of active transport projects from the State Government’s B-Line project team.

Mosman Council has welcomed the State Government’s decision not to proceed with the forced amalgamation of councils in metropolitan Sydney, including the proposed merger of Mosman Council with Willoughby and North Sydney Councils.

Mosman residents will be able to play a part in restoring habitat for wildlife during Mosman Council’s National Tree Day activity at Little Ashton Reserve (off Whiting Beach Rd) on Sunday 30 July from 10am to 1pm.

Mosman Council is seeking feedback from residents and ratepayers about the kind of place they’d like to live in over the next decade.

Mosman residents are being urged to adopt a new approach to recycling to reduce waste in the recently launched Sort it Out campaign.

Now in its 16th year, 24/7 Youth Film Festival is an annual event where young film-makers from the Northern Beaches and Mosman have the chance to create their own short film.