Future focused 2025-2026 Budget puts service delivery front and centre01 July 2025 A future focused approach that continues to deliver for a growing city is the clear focus in Ipswich City Council’s $678 million 2025-2026 Annual Plan and Budget. |
New opportunities and past problems in 2025-26 State Budget26 June 2025 While the 2025-26 Queensland Budget delivered a range of commitments for the Ipswich community on Tuesday, with significant investments for health, education and policing, more is needed to address the city’s significant infrastructure shortfall. |
Focus on the future as Ipswich celebrates NAIDOC Week23 June 2025 Culture and connectedness will be on show at Tulmur Place as Ipswich City Council celebrates NAIDOC Week, with this year’s theme focusing on future leaders of First Nations communities. |
Queensland Government Waste Levy set to dump on Ipswich ratepayers23 June 2025 Ipswich ratepayers will be hit by the Queensland Government Waste Levy in Council’s 2025-26 Budget as the State dumps additional costs onto South East Queensland councils. |
City to become a canvas of colour and light for SPARK Ipswich 202520 June 2025 SPARK Ipswich returns for its fifth year from 11 to 20 July, with an immersive arts and culture program set to transform the city into a canvas of colour and light. |
Strides made in salvinia weed management across Springfield Lakes waterways19 June 2025 More than 80 tonnes of the invasive weed salvinia have been removed from two key waterways in Springfield Lakes as part of a coordinated approach by Ipswich City Council and developer Stockland. |
Council moves to combat billion-dollar infrastructure funding gap17 June 2025 Ipswich City Council’s 2025-2026 Budget will include a dedicated infrastructure levy to address the significant shortfall in investment from the Australian and Queensland governments, an estimated billion-dollar infrastructure funding gap over the next decade. |
Help shape Ipswich’s western suburbs16 June 2025 Community members are being called on to have their say to help shape the future of the city’s Western Growth Corridor, which includes the suburbs of Rosewood, Walloon and Thagoona. |
Active and Healthy – Yes we are!12 June 2025 Ipswich is making big strides in healthy living, with almost 30,000 residents taking part in Active and Healthy programs in 2024. |
Silver Jubilee Sports Facility Clubhouse complete12 June 2025 The Australian Government continues to partner with local governments, including Ipswich City Council, across Queensland to get high-priority local community infrastructure off the ground – with construction of the Silver Jubilee Sports Facility clubhouse at Spring Mountain, south west of Brisbane, officially complete. |
Ipswich City Council respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul people of the Yugara/Yagara Language Group, as custodians of the land and waters we share. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, as the keepers of the traditions, customs, cultures and stories of proud peoples.