Ipswich Insider

11/09/2026

BONUS OPEN HOUSE ALERT

Brighton House (c.1886) isn’t part of Great Places of Ipswich. It’s for sale and just happens to have a open home today! 😉

📍 14 Whitehill Road, Newtown
🕐 12:45–1:15pm today

Listed by Daniel Parsons & Braydan Fender, NGU Real Estate Ipswich Central.

Have looksy after you check out Rhossilli and The Chestnuts.

11/09/2026

Who's going?

11/09/2026

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07/09/2026

*** Entries closed*** Congrats 🥳 Annette from Fernvale enjoy the show :)

🎭 WIN 2 TICKETS TO GREASE

Ipswich Musical Theatre Company is bringing Grease to Ipswich Civic Centre, and I’ve got 2 tickets to give away for the Friday 18 September, 7.30pm show.

To enter, just comment below and tell me who you’d take with you.

I’ll randomely pick a comment/winner on Wednesday at noon.

Thanks to Ipswich Musical Theatre Company for the tickets!

02/09/2026

🙏FYI :

Our hearts are absolutely breaking for everyone at the Sundowner today. ❤️

As fellow publicans, we know a pub is so much more than a building. It’s your livelihood, your people, your memories and such a huge part of your community.

We can only imagine how devastating today must be. Sending so much love to the owners, staff and everyone who calls the Sundowner their local. We’re thinking of you all.

02/09/2026

You know the old house on Denmark Hill with the big stone retaining wall?

The one staring straight at the water tank?

Ever wondered about its past?

It’s called Caloola. Heritage records also call it Macfarlane’s House.

Two Ipswich mayors have lived there. Both before the huge water reservoirs blocked their view.

When Caloola’s first owner died, Ipswich locals paid for a monument to him in Queen’s Park.

On Facebook, locals remember the two Gough women who lived there as the “Preddey sisters”, after the Brisbane Street jewellery shop where they worked.

When Caloola went up for sale in 2005, 150 people walked through the first open home, with some saying they had waited years just to see inside.

It’s a neat one.

28/08/2026

A beach in One Mile?

27/08/2026

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Free every Wednesday!

21/08/2026

👀 Do you ever just go to open homes?

Walkers Real Estate

21/08/2026

Thank you to Century Batteries Supercars for some gate passes to the great Ipswich Super440 Queensland Raceway all weekend. If you check it out be sure to hang out at the Century Batteries Recharge zone with a DJ, prizes and kids activities.

Are you going to Super440 this weekend?