General News
23 April, 2025
Council keen to erase Mount Isa’s graffiti artists
Mount Isa City Council is looking at a new strategy to target illegal graffiti.
Mount Isa City Council is investigating new cleaning kits aimed at reducing graffiti across the city.
The measures to tackle graffiti are expected to go before council next month following community concerns raised about the offensive and even conspiratorial messages being sprawled across the CBD.
Council CEO Tim Rose said the graffiti kits under consideration were designed to reduce incentives for repeat offenders.
“There is anecdotal evidence that suggests if you can clean up the graffiti quickly, the kids that are doing it do not get the thrill from seeing it on display, which means they are less likely to continue,” he told North West Weekly.
“If you can get rid of the graffiti quickly it tends to lessen the amount of new graffiti being put up. We don’t have a growing rate base, so any additional costs need to be carefully considered.
“But council is working on a plan to rejuvenate the CBD and reducing the graffiti is part of that.”
Mr Rose said several CBD businesses had also been issued reminder notices to clean up their parking areas.
“We regularly send out these notices to private residences and businesses to tell them to clean up their areas,” he said.
Mount Isa mayor Peta MacRae said the council was developing new strategies to increase development across the city and was looking at examples in other places it could replicate.
“I would like to see our entire CBD activated and that’s why we have been meeting with politicians in Brisbane and Canberra and investigating what other councils are doing so we can try to create new projects in the city,” she said.