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Water to taste different for 60 per cent of Brisbane

Residents in more than 25 suburbs have been warned to expect their water to taste a bit different as repairs on a major pipeline get under way.

The projects crucial for Ipswich's future

Premium Content Subscriber only TREASURER Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget next week and we will learn how much money will flow for infrastructure, upgrades and other programs in Ipswich. Ahead of the budget, the QT asked all of the city’s elected representatives what they believed to be the priority projects in their patches. As the fastest growing city in Queensland, Ipswich desperately needs the infrastructure to keep up the expected population growth with the total number of residents set to more than double to 558,000 in the next 20 years. Here’s what they said: FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BLAIR SHAYNE NEUMANN (LABOR)

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Taskforce responds to sluggish insurance companies

Premium Content Subscriber only FED up with the sluggish response from insurance companies in assisting residents to get their lives back on track after the devastating Halloween hailstorms, Ipswich City Council has decided to take action. The damage bill for last year’s storms which hammered Ipswich and Logan is close to $1 billion and only a quarter of building claims have been completed more than four months on. More than 39,000 claims have been lodged. The most recent assessment by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority found 478 properties battered by storms had been repaired and 1297 were still damaged. Of those damaged properties, 704 remain tarped and 341 are still uninhabitable.

$1B storm damage bill looms: Help for insurance headaches

Only a quarter of building claims have been completed four months on from the Halloween hailstorms. Here’s how you can get help with insurers and free legal advice