I have someone visiting from overseas and she's been taking photos of everything haha, she wants to see some big and unusual things to take photos of here (just Ipswich please, not Brisbane/Gold Coast/Logan etc as I do not have the time or energy to head out that way) but I'm drawing a blank! I haven't been in Ipswich long enough to know so can I get some help please 🙏
Hey all 👋
IpswichSocials is live and running, and we’ve already got a couple of activities planned. If you live in the Ipswich region and are 18+, feel free to DM me for a Discord link.
This space is for us Ippy locals to make friends and explore our city (and yes, we will actually go outside Ipswich sometimes lol).
Like literally who asked you?
What’s going on in Flinders View Ripley as far as selling real estate, sell now or keep for a year or so ?
Hey everyone!
Would anyone be interested in joining an Ipswich social group?
The idea is to get together once a week and do a variety of activities things like hiking, bowling, board games, coffee, markets, trivia, or whatever people are interested in.
We'll post events about a month in advance, so you can come along to whichever ones suit your schedule and interests. There'll also be a Discord server so we can chat, suggest ideas, and organise everything.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, let me know! I'd love to get a friendly community together and meet some new people.
Hiya, I’m looking for new friends in or around Ipswich ages 17-21. Trying to find people who are into things that I am (motorbikes, gaming, late night walks. And just having a good time).
A few things about me. I’m 17, gay, I do have my own motorbike specifically a Zontes ZT-125 C1. I play on basically everything. PS, PC, Xbox and VR.
If anyone wants to be friends give a lil DM
ADDED: forgot there’s was a Ipswich in Australia I mean Ipswich, England
Hi guys, firstly I'm not a hoon or wanting to tear up the road. I'm just wondering if anyone has some good places for night drives. Maybe good spots to stop and sit in the fresh air. Listen to some music, that kind of thing.
Hey!
I'm trying to start a social group for people in Ipswich. If you're interested, send me a DM!
I don't know why every other area seems to have an active social group except us. 😂 Let's change that and build one ourselves.
Ippy man here. Proudly so. I moved to the US for love. I currently am in Texas with my wife and missing home. So much so that I... maybe booked some flights back in September. I'm looking forward to driving straight from the airport to KFC for some decent chips for once. Anyway my wife has only been to Australia once before. She's an animal lover. I had this crazy idea about like... finding some place she could touch a few of our cute little buggers. Mainly a wombat. I'm sure if she pats one cute little wombat she's going to be all like "okay so when are we moving here". So anyone got any leads on something like that? I would never let her touch a wild animal so is there any animal sanctuary or pets anyone knows of?
Anyway thanks for your help in advance. I can't wait to be home even if only temporary. I haven't heard anything but Yanks for 2 years. I've been telling my wife I can't get Nobbys Nuts off my mind and she has no clue what I'm talking about.
I travelled to each one and also did a video.
You can see all the more in if you're interested here: https://ipswichinsider.com.au/p/ipswich-protected-trees/
They are protected under Vegetation Protection Orders. If you damage or remove it, you can face penalties up to $146,795 (850 penalty units). Anyone can nominate a tree/vegetation but of course council decides which ones actually get it. Only 5 are on the register since 1997.
Looking for some recommendations for some good pizza in the Ipswich area thats not Pizza Hut or domino’s.
Does anyone remember when sections of the M7 street lights were turned off? I had an early morning drive recently, and it was very foggy. Those lights would have really helped.
Turned the wheel into a gutter and scraped the edge ffs.
Any rec’s on a good touch up business in Ipswich? Happy to travel, but mobile would be excellent.
So I caught the first train out from Roma Street station to Ipswich Station and walked to the starting point around Bunnings West Ipswich
This is my first recorded walk in Brisbane but my third walk having walked to the CBD from Redcliffe and Loganlea. I was originally going to start around 3am by booking a hotel room in Ipswich and then spending the second night in the CBD but I decided against it after realising that the trains could get me there at an acceptable time
I have only visited Ipswich once before so doing this walk gave me a better appreciation of the area. I wouldn't mind doing some shorter walks involving Ipswich as the destination
🆓 Free entry
🍻🍽️ Free, buy food/drink
💵 Ticketed
Ipswich Libraries - Solar System Fact-finding Mission daily
Ipswich Libraries - Spectacular Science Show WED-FRI booking required
Ipswich Art Gallery - Kids LightPlay 10am-5pm daily
Riverlink (Reject Shop) - Free Mini-golf 10am-2pm daily
🍻🍽️ Ripley Town Centre - Taste of Ripley Dining Trail ALL MONTH more info
🆓 Table 26, Orion Town Centre - Mum Walk Club 9-11am details
🆓 Queens Park Environmental Centre - Native Flora Watercolour Workshop 10-11:30am details
🍻🍽️ General Public - Trivia 6:30 PM info
💵 St Thomas' Church Hall, North Ipswich – Deep Sound Immersion Meditation 6-7:15pm ($25) info
🍻🍽️ Banshees Bar and Artspace - Karaoke 6pm info
💵 Springlake Hotel - Teacher Comedy Night 7:30pm ($35+) tickets
🍻🍽️ Brothers Leagues Club - Kids School Holiday Extravaganza 1:30-5pm info
💵 Imbibis Craft Distillery, Bundamba - Tour and tasting 2-3pm ($15) tickets
🆓 Croquet Club Hall, Queens Park - Boardgame Club Night 4:45-8:45pm more info
💵 Ipwich Indoor Sports Centre, Showgrounds - Pickleball 5:30-7:30pm ($8-15) See all weekly sessions here →
💵 The Racehorse Hotel - Ultimate Superstars of Country Tribute Concert 8pm ($55) tickets
🍻🍽️ Georges Garage, Rosewood - Lions Club Sausage Sizzle 8am info
💵 Swanbank Station - Swanbank Collier departing 9am and 11am details
🆓 Ipswich Art Gallery - Still Deadly: Voices of Our Elders Exhibition opening 10am-noon details
🍻🍽️ Brothers Leagues Club - Thriving Seniors Lunch Bunch 11:30am-2pm info
🆓 AMX Superstore, Ebbw Vale - Ipswich Bike Night 3-6pm details
🆓 White Rock Adventure Playground - White Rock Winter Festival 4-7pm info
🍻🍽️ Stony Creek Brewing - Live music: Jimmy Festoon 6-9pm info
🆓 Robelle Domain Parklands - Springfield Markets 8am-1pm details
🆓 Heritage Poultry, Moggill - Sunday Farm Day 10am-12:30pm info
🍻🍽️ Banshees Bar & Artspace - Heaps Grass with Joseph Rabjohns 2-4pm ($9) tickets
🆓 Weekly Adventure Walk + coffee (BYO) with Kez and crew from u/thingstodoIpswich 9-10am info
🆓 Yamanto Central (outside Kmart) - Kids Art Club 10am-2pm ALL WEEK info
🆓 Springfield Lakes YMCA - Ipswich Thriving Seniors daily events timetable →
🍻🍽️ Hotel Metropole - Tuesday Trivia 7pm info
8-12 Jul – SPARK Ipswich Arts Festival details
9 Jul – Rosewood Family Fun Day Dino Encounters, Rosewood Anglican Parish info
9 Jul - Micro Drone Workshop, Ipswich Central Library register
11 Jul – Little Day Out 2026, Ripley Town Centre info
11 Jul – The Handmade Expo, Nicholas St Precinct info
11 Jul – Cambrian Choir: Northern Lights, St Mary’s Catholic Church info
11 Jul – Winter Meat Feast, Ipswich Showgrounds info
11-12 Jul – Lure Fly & Outdoors Expo, Fernvale details
I love One Mile. I grew up on the edge of Brisbane - South. The wide edge between rural and suburban. One Mile reminds me of that.
Was previously getting stuff from a crazy cheap fruit shop in Darra occasionally when I had appointments around that area, but I'm not heading down that way much anymore and it's a bit much of a drive just to go for cheap fruit.
So I'm asking around here for opinions on the best place to get fruit and veggies in Ipswich. Especially when factoring in quality of the produce, how long it lasts from buying it and price.
Very much sick of buying stuff from my local woolies or coles that goes off anywhere between 1-4 days after buying it 😭
For those that don't know where exactly, here is a google maps pin
There's been one campground there for a few months now, and that's fine, homeless people need to be somewhere.
But when I drove past the other day, there's now 2 more tents set up and 3 caravans.
As I said, obviously these people need somewhere to go and be and live, it's not right to harass them...but the facilities to support them, showers, drinking water, etc...things to make people comfortable in society.
Obviously housing is bad, but why isn't Council or State Government doing something to help? Olympics is a couple of years away and we should hopefully be on top of this by then.
We're on one of the older Queenslanders up in Coalfalls with a full 1,200m2 block. Posting because my husband isn't on Reddit and I figure locals on the same clay might get something out of this.
What happened to our lawn:
Curl grubs ate the root system. He treated with Acelepryn and the grubs died. But then he put Barricade pre-emergent down on the recovering lawn, not realising it stops every runner from establishing new roots. Killed his own recovery. $3k+ lesson.
We ripped the front yard out early 2025. Full soil prep on Coalfalls clay:
- pH test: 5.5-6.5 (typical for here)
- Gypsum at 200-500g per m2 to break clay aggregation
- Dolomite to raise pH and add magnesium
- Volcamine Zeolite at 1-2kg per m2 (permanent nutrient retention)
- LawnPride Under Turf Starter
Laid Sir Walter Buffalo DNA Certified. Cyclone Alfred hit three days later. It survived. Front verge is thriving now.
Why I'm posting here specifically:
My husband is a medically retired vet and his notes about what he applied were scattered everywhere. Different apps, notebooks, bags in the shed. He has cognitive decline from service so tracking this stuff across multiple places is genuinely hard. He started building a little app for himself to keep it all in one place.
I turned it into a real product. It's called LawnSuite, it's free, and you can use it right now in your phone browser without installing anything:
It's got 111 Australian products with real label rates, dosage calculator for your lawn area, BOM weather, treatment logging. Built for Australian conditions, not a US app with metric conversion.
Backyard is still dirt. Waiting on Stampede Buffalo to come out for the shaded 632m2 out the back.
Anyone else fighting Coalfalls clay? Would be good to know what's worked for people locally. Also happy to pass on anything my husband learnt the hard way if it saves someone the same mistakes.