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Summer School Holiday Guide
Your ultimate guide to the Summer School Holidays is available for download!

Get active these school holidays and download your FREE guide to check out all the no cost and low cost activities on offer for kids of all ages!
Call for entries!
The biennial Percival Portrait Painting Prize is North Queensland’s own portrait competition.

Having begun in 2007, The Percivals is an open competition for artists.
We are making it easier for you to access your information
The Right to Information Act 2009 gives you the right to access and amend information held by public section agencies in QLD.


Find out what you can and can't access!
I want to make a payment!
Our online payment area allows you to pay rates and utilities, penalty infringements, animal registrations, business renewals and invoices.
One-stop shop information about Council's performance
Townsville Dashboards is a digital platform to access high quality, current data and information about Townsville, informing and enabling the Townsville community and those with an interest in investing in the region.
Call for artists!
Pinnacles Gallery and the North Queensland Potters' Association Inc. invites entries into the 2020 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards.

Entries close Friday 20 April 2020.
See all upcoming events in Townsville
See What's On in the Townsville region or submit your events for free!

Visit What’s On Townsville - to enter your community and sporting events, shows, exhibition, workshop, fundraiser, markets and a range of other events.
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What’s On in Townsville

The Grinch
Bring a blanket and set up your perch for the FREE screening of The Grinch!

Find out if the grumpy Grinch who tries to steal Christmas from Whoville gets caught, from 6:30pm Friday 20 December at Riverway Oval!
Ken Done, Paintings You Probably Haven’t Seen: Selected Works 2000 - 2017
Ken Done is an iconic Australian painter who began his career as an art director and designer before committing to painting full-time.


Exhibition on display from 6 December to 9 February 2020 at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery.
Summer Reading Club
Summer Reading Club registrations for 2019/2020 are now open!

Visit our Summer Reading Club page for more information on how to join and download our jam-packed program full of fun and free activities for all ages.
First major retrospective of Glen O’Malley
A long-time resident of North Queensland, O’Malley has consistently offered an esoteric viewpoint on Queensland and the world, from otherworldly landscapes and the surrealism of the everyday to the eccentric and the erotic.

Exhibition dates: 6 December to 9 February 2020 at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Summer School Holiday Guide
Your ultimate guide to the Summer School Holidays is available for download!

Get active these school holidays and download your FREE guide to check out all the no cost and low cost activities on offer for kids of all ages!
See all upcoming events in Townsville
See What's On in the Townsville region or submit your events for free!

Visit What’s On Townsville - to enter your community and sporting events, shows, exhibition, workshop, fundraiser, markets and a range of other events.

Explore Townsville

Botanical Gardens
Townsville has four botanic gardens: Anderson Gardens, Palmetum, Queens Gardens and Dan Gleeson Gardens and they are a beautiful sight to behold. Visit them today!
The Strand's 20th Birthday
This time 20 years ago Townsville was preparing for the opening of what has become one of the city’s most popular destinations – The Strand.

On Saturday 19 October 2019, we celebrated The Strand’s 20th birthday in collaboration with Star 106.3’s Fire in the Sky event.
Street Art Locations
Street Art as an important factor in creating a vibrant and lively city centre. Contributing to placemaking and urban living transformation.
Venues & Open Spaces
Council has a number of venues, parklands and facilities that are available for hire by residents, community and other groups.
Our pools and lagoons
Visit our pools, beaches, Riverway lagoons or rockpool for a refreshing dip.
Jezzine Barracks
The 15-hectare heritage precinct commemorates the military and Aboriginal heritage of the Kissing Point headland through 32 specially commissioned public artworks, extensive interpretive signage and the restoration of significant elements of the Kissing Point Fort complex. Large-scale landscaping works have also opened up the area for public use.