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Premium Content Community groups organising Anzac Day services across Ipswich were told to pay thousands for professional traffic control after the region s council refused to provide support for the sacred event. Ipswich City Council bureaucrats shocked veterans groups this month by revealing they would be left on their own to hire traffic control companies and close roads during the Dawn Service and Anzac Day marches. Previously, council employees have provided signage and support for several services across the urban and rural region. Ipswich City Council Mayor Teresa Harding has pledged to reverse the policy. The Anzac Day organising committees, largely made up of older volunteers, were left stunned when staff from the $606.1 million council revealed no cash could be provided for this year s event.
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MASKS will be mandatory for anyone leaving home across Ipswich as well as greater Brisbane and Logan as part of a three-day lockdown announced this morning.
New restrictions will come into effect at 6pm tonight after a new high-risk variant of COVID-19 was found to have been contracted in Queensland.
Ipswich City Council Mayor Teresa Harding told the
Queensland Times the lockdown would be short and sharp, hopefully helping to avoid a much longer lockdown.
“The council’s role in this will obviously be to help get the information out to residents,” Ms Harding said.
“The council’s public facilities will be closed for the duration of the lockdown. Fortunately it is over a weekend.
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Subscriber only IMPOSING but majestic, Mirrigin the wedge-tailed eagle has made a new home for herself close to care and all the treats she could want. During the past 2.5 years, she has undergone rehabilitation and extensive vet treatment after she was shot from the sky in 2017. A couple spotted Mirrigin while she lay bleeding from the wound and rushed her to the vet, saving her life. Nursed back to health after she was shot from the sky, Mirrigin the wedge-tailed eagle is now living at the Ipswich Nature Centre. Photo: Ebony Graveur Though she made a full recovery at the Gatton University of Queensland Vets Small Animal Hospital, the bone in her wing failed to fuse, meaning she is tragically unable to soar to the great heights her kind a famous for.