Welcome to the City of Townsville

The Mount Louisa Open Space Masterplan will transform the area into one of Townsville’s most popular public spaces by allowing locals and visitors to take advantage of its spectacular vistas of our city and coastline.

New water conservation measures are now in place across Townsville.

Residents can now use sprinklers and automatic irrigation from 5pm to 8am three days a week on the odds and evens system.

In July 2019 Townsville North Queensland will host the inaugural Northern Fringe Festival running alongside the Northern Australian Festival of Arts (NAFA).

Performers and artists can submit their events to be part of the Festival until Friday 10 May, 2019.

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!

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.

Townsville City Council understands the hardships residents are going through after the floods.

To help in this recovery period the recent rates and utility charges due date has been extended.

All Ratepayers due date is now Thursday 4 April 2019.

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 1 - Rollingstone - Tuesday 2 April.

Register your attendance.

This transformative masterplan will deliver a number of large-scale infrastructure projects across Townsville.

Donna Beningfield’s Migrating Souls comprises of over fifty works on slate tiles and canvas, depicting local personalities and one of their many past lives.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Friday 15 March - Sunday 28 April 2019.

Come and Vote for your favourite youth act!
SMS the artist/s name to 0481 883 257 or like the artist/s photo on Townsville Youth Council's Facebook (1 like = 1 vote)

Voting will open 6pm 23 March and close 6pm 6 April.

Express Yourself is drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s Contemporary Collection and highlights portraits of Australians whose unique life experiences symbolise social and cultural themes.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Friday 15 February to Sunday 7 April 2019

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

Various dates.

Free though bookings required

Join us in a hands on session where a facilitator will show you the basics of how to use a 3D printer.

CityLibraries Thuringowa Central

Various dates.

Free, though bookings required.

Unleash the mess! Increase your child’s confidence and develop their fine and gross motor skills by exploring fun, sensory and creative Messy Play.

Various dates and locations.

Thematic Communication Workshop with world-renowned communication and behavioural change expert Professor Sam Ham.
Monday 15 - Tuesday 16 April.
RSVP by Wednesday 10 April

Townsville City Council is on the journey towards becoming an accredited White Ribbon Workplace. Together we play a vital role in standing up, speaking out and ending all forms of family violence.

Help Council continue its commitment to achieving White Ribbon Accreditation by participating in Cheese for Change day. Our goal is to raise $1000 for Cheese for Change day.