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Swanbank and New Chum updates (2023–present)

2025

• 19 November 2025
• 22 October 2025
• 29 August 2025
• 4 July 2025
• 27 May 2025
• 14 March 2025
• 5 March 2025
• 17 February 2025
• 31 January 2025

2024

• 23 December 2024
• 27 November 2024
• 22 November 2024
• 30 September 2024
• 18 September 2024
• 12 August 2024
• 3 August 2024
• 12 June 2024
• 10 May 2024
• 10 April 2024
• 28 March 2024
• 19 March 2024
• 8 March 2024
• 1 March 2024
• 29 February 2024
• 27 February 2024
• 14 February 2024
• 12 February 2024
• 2 February 2024
• 23 January 2024
• 12 January 2024
• 5 January 2024

2023

• 21 December 2023
• 7 December 2023 (PDF, 114.8 KB)
• 1 December 2023 (PDF, 115.3 KB)
• 17 November 2023 (PDF, 179.4 KB)
• 16 October 2023 (PDF, 197.2 KB)
• 21 September 2023 (PDF, 153.1 KB)
• September 2023 (PDF, 254.2 KB)
• 29 March 2023 (PDF, 191.7 KB)

Previous updates (2018–2022)

• 8 December 2022 (PDF, 4.5 MB)
• 24 August 2022 (PDF, 601.5 KB)
• 18 July 2022 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• 24 June 2022 (PDF, 399.3 KB)
• 8 June 2022 (PDF, 206.7 KB)
• 31 May 2022 (PDF, 232.1 KB)
• 23 May 2022 (PDF, 225.7 KB)
• 12 May 2022 (PDF, 206.4 KB)
• 5 May 2022 (PDF, 234.7 KB)
• 28 April 2022 (PDF, 217.8 KB)
• 21 April 2022 (PDF, 600.6 KB)
• 8 April 2022 (PDF, 156.5 KB)
• 1 April 2022 (PDF, 3.9 MB)
• November 2021 (PDF, 242.4 KB)
• August 2020 (PDF, 332.8 KB)
• March 2019 (PDF, 11.9 MB)
• November 2018 (PDF, 876.4 KB)

Media releases

• 27 November 2024: Ipswich waste operator handed ground-breaking odour nuisance penalty
• 18 September 2024: DESI secures landmark restraining order to reduce Ipswich odours
• 20 March 2024: Outcome of interim civil proceeding against Swanbank company
• 27 February 2024: Asbestos detected in compost at NuGrow Ipswich
• 2 February 2024: Decision reserved in NuGrow court action
• 23 January 2024: Waste fire, Swanbank
• 12 January 2024: Environmental Protection Order - Wood Mulching Industries
• 10 January 2024: $30K in fines for green waste fire, Swanbank
• 28 December 2023: Update – Ipswich industrial fire
• 1 December 2023: Civil proceedings against Swanbank business
• 8 April 2022: Clean-up continues at Ipswich facility
• 1 April 2022: Odour at Ipswich
• 19 March 2021: DES fines Ipswich company after odour complaints
• 18 September 2020: Ipswich operator fined