Community groups organising Anzac Day services across Ipswich were told to pay thousands for professional traffic control after the region's council refused to provide support for the sacred event. Ipswich City Council bureaucrats shocked veterans' groups this month by revealing they would be left on their own to hire traffic control companies and close roads during the Dawn Service and Anzac Day marches. Previously, council employees have provided signage and support for several services across the urban and rural region. Ipswich City Council Mayor Teresa Harding has pledged to reverse the policy. The Anzac Day organising committees, largely made up of older volunteers, were left stunned when staff from the $606.1 million council revealed no cash could be provided for this year's event.