Download coordinates as: Goodna is a suburb on the eastern edge of the City of Ipswich in Queensland, Australia.

Fifty percent of The Pan Pacific Peace Gardens is also situated within Goodna.

Wildlife is restricted with ongoing development, however possums and on a rare occasion koalas have also been spotted and kangaroos are numerous, especially near the golf courses.

In 1826 Patrick Logan established the Woogaroo Quarry to provide building materials for the Moreton Bay penal colony.

The name Woogaroo is derived from Yuggera language, Ugarapul dialect, indicating shady or cool.

[10]As early as 1841 there was a sheep run called Woogaroo Station belonging to H.S.Russell and Dr. Stephen Simpson.

Simpson was the lands commissioner and magistrate for the Moreton Bay district, and lived in a slab hut while he farmed on the riverbank near the mouth of Woogaroo Creek.

As the main road intersected with the track from Coopers Plains and the river, it was a strategic location for Simpson.

Other well known pioneers settled or purchased land in the Goodna area: James Holmes arrived in 1851 and established himself as a grazier; Charles Pitt married Thomas Grenier's daughter Mary in 1855 and grew cotton and maize at Redbank Plains.

Pitt was also a JP and later on the Purga Divisional Board and involved in the beginnings of the Redbank School.

[citation needed]Historically Goodna was a farming community, primarily in sugar, cotton, livestock (sheep and cattle), and also had a large local timber industry.

Large amounts of timber were taken by bullock teams to the Goodna wharf and shipped to Ipswich and Brisbane.

They survived the 1893 Brisbane flood but a little later built Pitt's Hotel Cecil on the store site.

Edwin and Cecilia's daughter Zora Brenda Pitt grew up and learnt to ride in Goodna and she became Royal National Show champion woman rider in the early 1900s.

He built the now heritage-listed house at 43 William Street and owned the adjacent general store and bakery.

[18][19] On 30 January 1873 the ceremony of "turning the sod" for the first rail link between Ipswich and Brisbane took place at Goodna.

To officially start the work, the Queensland Governor George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby, used a solid silver spade to dig a small piece of earth and place it in a wheelbarrow.

In the smaller paddock immediately behind the Presbyterian Church and Manse stood the wooden 'Honey Shed' used by Daniel's brother Harry in conjunction with his apiary.

[citation needed] By 1888 the population of Goodna was 500, and there were three friendly societies, the Oddfellows, Loyal Rose of Denmark and Good Templars.

[citation needed] St Patrick's Primary School was established on 3 July 1910 by the Sisters of Mercy, whose convent opened in 1911.

[12] The Diggers Rest on the corner of Queen and Church Streets is the Goodna War Memorial and was dedicated in September 1921.

[citation needed] The 2009 Goodna Town Plan introduced buildings up to 12 stories in the main shopping centre area.

Other languages spoken at home included Samoan 7.7%, Vietnamese 4.6%, Tagalog 1.3%, Swahili 1.3% and Spanish 1.2%.

The festival is held in Evan Marginson Park near Goodna train station.