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The City of Ipswich is a local government area in Queensland, Australia, located within the southwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area, including the urban area surrounding the city of Ipswich and surrounding rural areas.

Geography

The City of Ipswich is centrally located in the South East Queensland region of Australia. Ipswich governs the outer western portion of the Brisbane Metropolitan Area, Queensland, Australia. It covers an area of Шаблон:Convert along the coast about Шаблон:Convert southwest of Brisbane CBD. To the east is the City of Brisbane local government area, and to the west are the rural and agricultural areas of the Brisbane, Lockyer and Fassifern Valleys.

History

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Ipswich Post Office, c. 1890
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Ipswich in flood, 1893

Ipswich is the second-oldest local government area in Queensland, after Brisbane. On 16 November 1859, after the enactment of the Municipalities Act of 1858 in New South Wales,[1] a petition containing 91 signatures was received by the Governor of New South Wales seeking to have Ipswich, which at the time had 3,000 people, granted municipal town status. The petition was gazetted the following day, and no counter-petition was received.[2][3][4]

On 29 November, the letters patent authorised by Queen Victoria which were to make Queensland a separate colony were published in New South Wales, and the petition was forwarded to the new Queensland governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen. On 10 December 1859, the same day that the letters patent were published in Queensland, the petition was regazetted. On 3 March 1860 the Borough of Ipswich was proclaimed, and its first elections were held on 19 April 1860, where John Murphy became its first Mayor. The Municipality's corporate logo was designed by Reverend Lacey H. Rumsey, the rector of St Paul's Church in Ipswich in 1861.[2][3][4]

Ipswich applied on 22 November 1904 to become a City, the status being conferred by the Government of Queensland on 1 December 1904 and its first mayor was Hugh Reilly.[4] On its declaration, the City of Ipswich covered only the central area of Ipswich itself – even what are today considered inner suburbs were parts of different entities.

Beginning in 1994 Ipswich adopted an innovative, community-based, information technology project which aimed to make the city a technology hub at the forefront of the growing move towards the information superhighway.[5] The most prominent feature of the initiative, which was called Global Info-Links, was the development of a new library with free public internet access and the development of a wide area network to which people could subscribe.

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Council plaque at the Central Congregational Church Manse, 2015

In October 2000, the council began erecting cast brass plaques at significant heritage sites.[6]

The Greater Ipswich Scheme of 1916

On 13 October 1916, a rationalisation of the local government areas in and around Ipswich was implemented. It involved the abolition of five shires:[7][8]

resulting in:

  • an enlarged City of Ipswich by including part of the Shire of Brassall and part of the Shire of Bundanba[9]
  • a new Shire of Ipswich by amalgamating part of the Shire of Brassall, part of the Shire of Bundanba, part of the Shire of Walloon and all of the Shire of Purga[10]
  • an enlarged Shire of Rosewood by including part of the Shire of Walloon
  • an enlarged Shire of Esk by including all of the Shire of Lowood[11]

Greater Ipswich Scheme of 1949

On 29 January 1949, a new Local Government Act was enacted to further amalgamate local government in the Ipswich area, abolishing the Shire of Normanby and the Shire of Rosewood. The City of Ipswich was enlarged (from 12¼ square miles to 30 square miles) to include the more urban parts of the Shire of Moreton (formerly known as the Shire of Ipswich). The Shire of Moreton was then enlarged by the inclusion of the northern part of the Shire of Normanby and all the Shire of Rosewood. The southern part of the Shire of Normanby was transferred to an enlarged Shire of Boonah.[12][13][14]

Further enlargement

The Shire of Moreton was amalgamated into the City of Ipswich on 11 March 1995.[15]

Loss of rural areas

In March 2000, Ipswich ceded some rural territory in Mount Walker, Mutdapilly, Rosevale and Warrill View to the neighbouring Shire of Boonah. Following the major reforms of local government in Queensland, on 15 March 2008, Ipswich lost the largely rural areas of Harrisville and Peak Crossing in its southeast to the new Scenic Rim Region.

On 31 October 2012, a groundbreaking ceremony for the Ecco Ripley housing development project was conducted by then Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale and Sekisui House.[16]

Divisions

Шаблон:Infobox legislature The local government has 10 Councillors each representing one division (or ward). Each Councillor serves a four-year term. The Mayor is directly elected by the people every 4 years. Elected mayor of 2016, Paul Pisasale,[17] resigned on 6 June 2017 citing health concerns (specifically multiple sclerosis).[18][19]

Division 7 Councillor Andrew Antoniolli and Deputy Mayor Paul Tully both contested the 2017 Ipswich Mayoral By-Election, held on 19 August 2017. Councillor Antoniolli was elected Mayor with 34.57% of the primary vote and 54.44% after preferences, with Paul Tully winning 30.83% of the primary vote and 45.56% after preferences.[20]

After Andrew Antoniolli's election as Mayor, a By-Election for the vacant Division 7 was held on 7 October 2017. David Martin was elected with 23.65% of the vote. Antoniolli won the 2017 Ipswich City Council Mayoral By-Election, triggered by the resignation of former mayor, Paul Pisasale who was charged with multiple counts of corruption. In May 2018 Andrew Antoniolli was charged with seven counts of corruption forcing him to stand down and administrators to take over Ipswich City Council.[18][21]

In August 2018, the Queensland Government passed legislation to dismiss all of the councillors and replace them with an administrator.[22]

At the time of the dismissal, the divisional Councillors were:[23][24]

Councillor Declared political membership Term Constituency
Former Mayor Andrew Antoniolli ALP 2017–2018 Mayor
Cr. David Morrison Independent 2000–2018 Division 1
Cr. Paul Tully ALP 1979–2018 Division 2
Cr. Kerry Silver ALP 2016–2018 Division 3
Cr. Kylie Stoneman ALP 2016–2018 Division 4
Cr. Wayne Wendt ALP 2016–2018 Division 5
Cr. Cheryl Bromage ALP 2004–2018 Division 6
Cr. David Martin Independent 2017–2018 Division 7
Cr. Charlie Pisasale Independent 1995–2018 Division 8
Cr. Sheila Ireland Independent 2004–2018 Division 9
Cr. David Pahlke Independent 1995–2018 Division 10

Following by a reviewer by the administrator Greg Chemello, a new system of having four divisions each with two councillors was introduced and was used in the local government elections on 28 March 2020.[25][26]

The current councillors elected during the 2020 Local Government elections are:[27][24][28]

Councillor Declared political membership Term Constituency
Mayor Teresa Jane Harding LNP 2020–present Mayor
Cr. Sheila Ireland Independent 2004–2018, 2020–present Division 1
Cr. Jacob Madsen ALP 2020–present Division 1
Cr. Paul Tully ALP 1979–2018, 2020–present Division 2
Cr. Nicole Jonic Independent 2020–present Division 2
Cr. Marnie Doyle Independent 2020–present Division 3
Cr. Andrew Fechner Independent 2020–present Division 3
Cr. Kate Kunzelmann ALP 2020–present Division 4
Cr. Russell Milligan Independent 2020–present Division 4

Mayors

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Suburbs

The City of Ipswich includes the following settlements:

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Cameron Park at Booval, 2015

Urban:

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The Brisbane River at Riverview, 2013

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Picnic facilities at Goolman, 2015

Rural:

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Churchbank Weir at Peak Crossing, 2015

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1 - split with Scenic Rim Region
2 - not to be confused with White Rock in Cairns Region

Services

Ipswich City Council operates four public libraries at Ipswich Central, Redbank, Redbank Plains and Springfield Central.[29] It also operates a mobile library service to Booval, Brassall, Camira, Flinders View (Winston Glades) Goodna, Grandchester, Karalee, Marburg, Rosewood, South Ripley, Walloon, and Willowbank.[30]

Sister cities

References

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External links

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