Division 2 highlights: Roads, repairs and recreation in focus at 2025-26 budget

01 July 2025

The Ipswich City Council 2025-2026 Budget features major investments in the local road network and resident recreation to keep up with unprecedented rates of growth across Division 2.

Division 1 highlights: Community reaps benefits in 2025-2026 Budget

01 July 2025

The largest division in Ipswich – Division 1 – will benefit from a diverse range of projects to match the growing community’s needs in the Ipswich City Council 2025-2026 Budget.

Future focused 2025-2026 Budget puts service delivery front and centre

01 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 Budget

26 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 Week

23 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 ratepayers

23 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 2025

20 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 waterways

19 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 gap

17 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 suburbs

16 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.

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.