Internal documents show former Ipswich council figures charged ratepayers $30,000 for exclusive dining and memberships. 

Documents obtained by the ABC under Right to Information allegedly reveal executives of Ipswich City Council dined out at the Brisbane Club between 2011 and 2017, with the ratepayer-funded entity footing the bill.

The former council was dismissed amid a series of fraud, corruption and extortion allegations in 2018.

Receipts from the Brisbane Club includes the names of dismissed councillors Paul Tully and former mayor Paul Pisasale. 

Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding has called for a detailed audit of council-controlled entities in existence at the time.

“This happened just after the flood in 2011. To see that level of waste - the people of Ipswich are decent, hard-working people,” she said.

“They owe the people of Ipswich an apology and they should be compensating the people of Ipswich.

“There has never been a forensic audit of those controlled entities, at the time of dismissal those entities had a corporate structure which did not allow the CCC [Crime and Corruption Commission] or ASIC to look at them,” Cr Harding said.

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