Welcome to the City of Townsville

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

Council is currently seeking applications for the 2020 Traineeship and Apprenticeship intake!

The First Start program primarily targets young Queensland school leavers and disadvantaged job seekers considered at risk of enduring prolonged periods of unemployment.

You can pay your rates a number of ways:

Pay online using your credit card
BPAY
Direct debit
Direct to Council
Australia Post

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.

As part of our 2019 Christmas Together celebrations, Council will be facilitating a Festive Flag competition with school students across the city.

School aged students are invited to submit a design celebrating Christmas in the tropics.

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!

Council is looking for ideas on what to name three streets in the new Stadium precinct!

Entries are now open and close on Friday 20 September.

Community Council is a great opportunity to meet your local Councillor and find out what's going on in your neighbourhood and across the city.

Next meeting:

Division 10 - Wulguru - Wednesday 18 September.

Join us at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery this Sunday for our Free Family Fun Day.

Free art making activities for families.

Drawing together twelve Australian and International artists, Soft Core surveys the fluctuating meanings of softness – time stamping soft and inflatable art making here and now.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery - 6 September - 3 November 2019

If you are 12-18 years old, are a budding artist, interested in art or just want to place to hang out, Loud Lounge on Monday afternoons is the place for you.

Community Council is a great opportunity to meet your local Councillor and find out what's going on in your neighbourhood and across the city.

Next meeting:

Division 10 - Wulguru - Wednesday 18 September.

Get personalised help with a range of technology queries. Learn how to troubleshoot problems with portable devise, create an email account, search the internet and more!

Learn to digitise your organisation’s slides, negatives, photographs, papers and books to conservation standards during this free class. A trainer will teach you how to identify the best format and device to use in our Digitisation Lounge to preserve and save your precious materials.

CityLibraries Flinders Street

Free though bookings required

Bring a blanket and cosy up under the stars and raintrees……for the FREE screening of Ralph Breaks the Internet.

Join best buds Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope-von-Schweetz as they travel to the World Wide Web to save video game “Sugar Rush”, from 6:30pm Friday 28 September at Riverway Oval.

Discover Townsville from its humble beginnings.

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!

We have three library branches and a mobile library so come in and explore your library.

Council has a range of sports and leisure facilities to suit every taste including boating and fishing locations, pools, cricket, AFL, skateboard parks and more.

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.

Street Art as an important factor in creating a vibrant and lively city centre. Contributing to placemaking and urban living transformation.

Image - Leans Mother Earth 2017, street art mural painted in Odgen St, Townsville

Explore Townsville's history with Townsville Tours and Trails, a free, self-guided tour app.

Hear the city's past come to life with guided audio and walk through immersive GPS stop points.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is Townsville's premier regional art gallery, offering a dynamic range of local, national and international exhibitions complemented by workshops, talks and a host of other programs.