Download coordinates as: Walloon is a town and rural residential locality in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
[5] The origin of the suburb name is thought to refer to the French-speaking area of southern Belgium known as Wallonia.
[11] On 21 April 1891, sisters Bridget Kate and Mary Jane Broderick (aged 9 and 6 respectively) were drowned in a waterhole near their home in Walloon.
[17] Poet Henry Lawson wrote a poem called The Babies of Walloon based on their deaths.
In 2006, a sculpture depicting the Broderick sisters playing was unveiled in the Henry Lawson Bicentennial Park in Walloon.
[5] The Ipswich City Council operates a fortnightly mobile library service which visits Queen Street.