Babinda Air Raid Shelter, World War II air raid shelter in Babinda, Australia

Babinda Air Raid Shelter is a concrete structure on Munro Street with reinforced walls and blast barriers positioned at both entrances. The facility was designed with thick, protective construction to safeguard people during air attacks.

Ordered by the Department of Public Works on 16 January 1942, the shelter was built that year by Mulgrave Shire Council, not the department. It was one of 57 public shelters erected between Mackay and Cairns after a December 1941 gazette notice required Queensland councils to provide them. Babinda's was the town's only such shelter.

The shelter stands on Munro Street, not in Anzac Park; the park lies elsewhere in town. Anzac Park was the Babinda sports ground until 1927, when the land was subdivided and the remainder kept as public parkland. A World War I memorial, first erected nearer the town centre on Munro Street, was moved into the park in the 1930s, when the area is believed to have been named Anzac Park.

The former shelter stands at 109 Munro Street, an above-ground concrete structure with an open entrance at each end. It now serves as the town's public toilet block, so access is by foot from the street. The interior is small, seating was designed for 50 people, and the thick walls and blast walls at the doorways are still visible.

It remains the only mandated air raid shelter constructed in Babinda during World War II, despite about five dozen similar structures being built across the region between Mackay and Cairns. Its isolated status among these wartime facilities speaks to the particular defense needs of this locality.