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Shoutout to our teams getting everything ready for Carnival. Be it our gardeners, street sweepers, irrigators, mowers, e...
04/09/2026

Shoutout to our teams getting everything ready for Carnival. Be it our gardeners, street sweepers, irrigators, mowers, events crews you name it, it’s all hands on deck. This team were topping up mulch in Queens Park this morning as toowoombaparkrun and It’s A Bloke Thing Foundation Fathers Day run ran by. I have to say the gardens are looking bloody beautiful. 👌🌼🌹🌷

Toowoomba Region and our neighbours Western Downs Regional Council Councils have worked together to deliver a landmark C...
01/09/2026

Toowoomba Region and our neighbours Western Downs Regional Council Councils have worked together to deliver a landmark Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) with RWE Renewables Australia for the proposed Cattle Creek Wind Farm near Millmerran.

This is among one of the first few CBA’s signed in Qld. It’s important as it makes sure our local communities like Millmerran and Cecil Plains, who have major projects coming their way, receive transparent, accountable and lasting benefits. Benefits that will last long after the renewable project team has set-up, built their farm and moved on to the next project.

The process was shaped by local engagement, including input through Toowoomba Region’s Community Benefit Liaison Groups and consultation across both council areas. A big thanks to the Economic Development Teams of both Councils, our local liaison groups and industry for working together for long-term benefit.

It’s hard to realise the sheer size of these wind turbines. Some stand approx approx 275m from tip to ground, that’s 71 stories or equivalent to the height of the Q1 building on the Gold Coast. Each blade itself can be up to 80m long. I have my own opinions on wind and solar farms and am glad these CBA’s are now in place. Pic 2 is from a recent visit to neighbours of the Wambo Wind Farm.

Mayor Geoff McDonald Andrew Smith - Mayor of Western Downs Regional Council Millmerran Commerce and Progress Inc Local FM Millmerran Cecil Plains Community Group

I often get asked about our Ordinary Meetings (which are always anything but ordinary) so here’s a summary for August:🚙 ...
31/08/2026

I often get asked about our Ordinary Meetings (which are always anything but ordinary) so here’s a summary for August:

🚙 The Draft Toowoomba Region Parking Strategy 2026 was approved for immediate finalisation. The key strategic objectives are 1) Ease of Use, 2) Safety, 3) Plan for Growth using technology and innovation to improve customer experience and Council performance. Notably Council will move to a much simpler pay by plate model in the Toowoomba CBD and surrounding towns/precincts will have their own individual plans (eg schools, hospitals etc).

🏠 Review of regulatory frameworks relating to temporary homes, caravans and tiny homes to commence. Council Officers are to undertake analysis of alternate housing models for long-term solutions and present findings, options and recommendations at the December Ordinary Meeting. As housing trends change and alternative housing models arise this will help inform decisions and ensure our local regulatory framework is fit for purpose.

🧑‍💻 Requested the CEO draft an Industrial Water Use Policy to prohibit the use of drinking water to be used in the operation of data centres connected to the water supply network. CEO to come back to Council on or before Feb 2027 with Policy and to write to Qld and Commonwealth Governments regarding our regions desire that recycled water be included for new data centres in emerging legislation. There’s been quite a bit of media interest around this with Toowoomba Region taking the lead.

🛩️ The Toowoomba Region Aerodromes Operational Review Final Report, July 2026 noted.

🏠 New Infrastructure Charges were adopted

⚠️ Audit Committee Report (3 June) received and recommendations to be adopted

🏡 Development approval RAL/2025/5915 reconfiguring 2 lots into 50 at Mt Lofty was declined on the grounds it conflicts with 8.2.2 Bushfire Hazard Overlay Code.

For more detail on any of these items head to www.tr.qld.gov.au where the reports, and links to the live-streamed meeting are listed.

I ran a half marathon in 2006 and today I ran another, maybe it’s a mid life crisis! 🏃‍♀️ A big thanks to my running mat...
16/08/2026

I ran a half marathon in 2006 and today I ran another, maybe it’s a mid life crisis! 🏃‍♀️ A big thanks to my running mates for being there through the darkness of cold Winter mornings and long weekend runs. Not as fast as my speedy friends, I could have stopped a number of times, but I didn’t and I finished!! 🥳 Thanks for the encouragement and tips over the past few months (and that last km today Yolande!), I love our Village! Louise Brownlie Fiona Ferguson Yolande Willemse Anna Wischer Margaret Thompson Emma Harrison Aleisha Wilson Toowoomba Road Runners Mellisa Johnston Margie Moloney Serena Dwyer

Yesterday I participated in Dr Shandiz’s MND clinical trials at the Base Hospital. A number of friends have lost loved o...
04/08/2026

Yesterday I participated in Dr Shandiz’s MND clinical trials at the Base Hospital. A number of friends have lost loved ones to the insidious disease so I do what I can, when I can. Thanks Dr Shandiz, nurse Sajina, and med students Aaron and Isaac. I’ll see you again in three months for the follow up.

If anyone’s at all interested in participating please DM me and I’ll put you in touch with the team. What’s special is they use the TMS machine recently purchased as a result of local fundraising efforts, efforts that see results here on the ground thanks Matt Butler and friends. 👏

MND Australia mndandme True Blue Lunch for MND Darling Downs Health Nerve Connection Foundation

It’s hard to get up in the dark especially when there’s a frost but the sunrise and company always makes it worthwhile. ...
03/08/2026

It’s hard to get up in the dark especially when there’s a frost but the sunrise and company always makes it worthwhile. Thanks Toowoomba Road Runners Run Toowoomba Run 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃

One highway, four towns, 7 days. The inaugural Queensland Fringe is headed our way bringing a state-wide arts trail to t...
31/07/2026

One highway, four towns, 7 days. The inaugural Queensland Fringe is headed our way bringing a state-wide arts trail to the outback and regional centres.

Charleville 1 August ➡️ Augathella 2 August ➡️ Roma 4 August and ➡️ a grand finale in Toowoomba The Empire 6 & 7 August.

Headlining and Special Events:
💥Jim Jeffries The Jim Jefferies Show
💥 Vanessa Amorosi Vanessa Amorosi
💥 Dami Im Dami Im
💥 Wes Carr WES CARR
💥 Phoebe Paradise as the official visual artist in residence PHOEBE PARADISE
💥 Shine Shoot Out Film Festival, top 10 locally filmed and produced films will be shown. Shine Lawyers Wendy Roche

It’ll be a brilliant celebration of the arts. 👏👏 Proudly supported by the The Empire Tom Oliver Productions USQnews Queensland Country

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Productive conversations in Yarraman today with the Yarraman Collective, a group of local business owners focussed on im...
22/07/2026

Productive conversations in Yarraman today with the Yarraman Collective, a group of local business owners focussed on improving their town and surrounding area. It was our second of these (for Councillor Gary Gardner, Cr Tim McMahon TRC and I as Councillors of the North) and the group attending is growing. Main topics included a community desire for a TRC Service Centre (of which Cr Tim McMahon TRC presented a petition on their behalf at yesterdays Ordinary Meeting), connecting town to the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail , ideas to grow town visitations through simple works to the trail head and community transport amongst other things.

Like almost all small towns across the region a Highway runs straight through the middle so it was great to see speeds have dropped to 50km/hr on the D’Aguilar and 40km/hr to the park. All due to an active community working hard with all levels of Government for years to increase road safety. Now town is advocating for a much needed GP, something many in the cities take for granted.

Here’s a pic of us Frohlies Grill where we had a tasty lunch with delicious meat from their butchery Frohlies Meats next door, a successful fourth and fifth generation Frohlich family business that is well worth the visit if you’re in the neighbourhood.

Happy Birthday Paul, delicious cake amd thanks for my ‘Yarraman 4614’ hat Michael (Produced with support from Friends of the BVRT Wild Horse FM Community Radio 👏👏).

Yarraman Caravan Park & Cabins Yarraman Park yarraman_homestead_garden Pink Flamingo Yarraman Peries IGA Yarraman Deb Frecklington MP

Protea Place and Toowoomba Regional Council will be holding a Vigil next Friday in memory of Jana Armstrong and those wo...
16/07/2026

Protea Place and Toowoomba Regional Council will be holding a Vigil next Friday in memory of Jana Armstrong and those women who’ve lost their lives to violence. 🕯️

5pm, Friday 24th July, Village Green (beside City Hall), Ruthven St, Toowoomba.

Protea Place Inc and Toowoomba Region

14/07/2026

Today was a big day for our region. The Queensland Government announced a significant investment of $145 million through the Residential Activation Fund (RAF) to build a Southern Water Treatment Plant at Westbrook.

To open up land for housing, you need water infrastructure like this (treatment plants, water reservoirs, pump stations and hundreds of kilometres of underground pipes etc) to make sure that when you turn on the tap, the water runs. This will help us increase our water capacity, strengthen our network, and open up a potential 17,000 new homes by 2030. 👏👏

The Premier said a key reason we received this funding was “because we had our house in order”. Am so proud of our team.

Thank you David Crisafulli MP David Janetzki MP Jarrod Bleijie MP Pat Weir MP Trevor Watts JJim McDonald MP Deb Frecklington MP Brent Mickelberg MP Ann Leahy Mayor Geoff McDonald Councillor Dr Rebecca Vonhoff and our water and planning teams.

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