Welcome to the City of Townsville

Did you know that you can choose how you're billed for your water?

The Water Opt-in period commenced on Monday 29 July and runs until Sunday 25 August 2019.

2019 Animal Registrations are now open. Register or renew your pet’s details before 31st August.

Visit our Animal Registrations page to find out more!

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 3 - Belgian Gardens - Wednesday 21 August.

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.

Council plans to invest $11.3 million with the aim to restore and reinvigorate the heritage features of the Pool.

Tobruk Memorial Baths will be closed from Monday 12 August for redevelopment.

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.

Council wants you along for the ride, so help us to change the gears on Townsville’s travel options by filling out our transport survey.

Tell us your train of thought for a change to win one of five $100 vouchers!

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!

TicketShop at the Townsville Civic Theatre will be closed from Monday 5 August due to the works required from the recent monsoon event.

During this period, TicketShop will operate from:Customer Service Centre - 103 Walker St &
Townsville Stadium. EFTPOS only.

Ticketek only available at Townsville Stadium.

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

Free art making activities for families.

A touring exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson explores language, related systems that seek to categorise knowledge, and how changes to both can affect the gradual disappearance of specialist knowledge as generations pass.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
11 July - 1 September

Come for activities, educational workshops on safety and much more - plus heaps of freebies!

No transport? No worries! Council has organised free shuttle buses from Stockland, Willows and Castletown Shopping centres - more details to come closer to the event.

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 3 - Belgian Gardens - Wednesday 21 August.

Bring a blanket and cosy up under the stars and raintrees……for the FREE screening of How to train your dragon: Hidden World.

Join Hiccup and Toothless on a journey to rescue their captured dragon friends, from 6:30pm Friday 23 August at Riverway Oval.

Join us every Tuesday afternoon for personalised help with a range of digital technology queries: mobile devices, emails, photos online learning, eBooks, apps and more.

CityLibraries Thuringowa Central

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

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

Throughout the Townsville region we have over 300 parks and open space areas, four botanics gardens, a great many walkways and bikeways throughout the city and surrounds and a variety of camping and caravan locations to suit everyone.

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

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!

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.

Discover Townsville from its humble beginnings.

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.