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  • LETTERS: Accommodation for homeless

    LETTERS: Accommodation for homeless

    I WRITE regarding homelessness in the city of Ipswich. Browns Park and the banks of the Bremer River have become the new home for the…

  • Time to celebrate our rich heritage

    Time to celebrate our rich heritage

    THE city’s signature heritage festival, Galvanized – A Festival of Heritage, returns this month. Across 11 days, the city will once again be transformed in…

  • Cycle network links to Queens Park

    Cycle network links to Queens Park

    WORK has been completed on a section of the Eastern Ipswich Bikeway linking Queens Park to the city centre. The $1.6 million project, jointly funded…

  • LETTERS: Habitat loss lost on pollies

    LETTERS: Habitat loss lost on pollies

    IT HAS been over three weeks since I responded to 90-year-old Jean Keys’ letter about the wholesale clearing in Bundamba near to her home and…

  • Pipeline works turn bush to desert

    Pipeline works turn bush to desert

    BELLBIRD Park residents have been left wondering when a huge swathe of bushland axed for a sewage pipeline will be rehabilitated. Springfield City Group ordered…

  • EDITORIAL: Opening a 1929 water tower?

    EDITORIAL: Opening a 1929 water tower?

    COMMENT MAYOR Teresa Harding is very good at finding photo opportunities. As highlighted in the Ipswich Tribune earlier this month, she has two extra staff…

  • Agro says he’s no muppet

    Agro says he’s no muppet

    THERE were comparisons with the character Animal from The Muppet Show when Agro was first fashioned as a puppet, but the cheeky character created by…

  • Junk, pollution ruin platypus creek

    Junk, pollution ruin platypus creek

    PLATYPUS Woggy was a familiar face at Bellbird Park’s creeks before last year’s floods but since then the lovable monotreme has vanished. Many people thought…

  • Another blow for suburban wildlife

    Another blow for suburban wildlife

    IPSWICH’S neighbourhood koalas could face losing more habitat if Council approves more infill development at Goodna. The latest comes in the form of a development…

  • Wreaths laid in honour of VP Day

    Wreaths laid in honour of VP Day

    WREATHS were laid at a Booval care home last Tuesday to mark the end of the 78th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific (VP). Veterans…

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