Transforming the Cooks River into the best urban river in the world.

Backyards are wonderful things – they provide shady spots on a sunny day, a training ground for amateur sports, a place to relax and the site of countless birthday cakes and memories.

On any given day you’ll find all sorts of people doing the same things along the banks of the Cooks River.

Come and explore our backyard river …

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An endangered frog sanctuary in the middle of industrial Greenacre.

This is Dr Arthur White’s
backyard river.

Listening, walking and connecting to the river.

This is B Hardy’s
backyard river.

Watch more videos about the river…

Learn about the river.

A new journey for the Cooks River

As Sydney’s population continues to grow, we’ll come to rely on the river as our backyard more than ever.

We know that over the coming years we need to rethink how we manage the river and our relationship to it.

It will take work to transform the Cooks River into the best urban river in the world, but we’re going for it. Are you with us?

The Plan for the River