Environmental Recovery - 2025 Western Queensland Surface Trough

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About

The $16.01 million Environmental Recovery package is for recovery and resilience activities to rehabilitate impacted catchment areas and national parks following the Western Queensland Surface Trough and Associated Rainfall and Flooding 21 March – 19 May 2025.

Eligibility

  • Balonne Shire
  • Banana Shire
  • Barcaldine
  • Barcoo Shire
  • Blackall-Tambo
  • Boulia Shire
  • Bulloo Shire
  • Burdekin Shire
  • Burke Shire
  • Carpentaria Shire
  • Central Highlands
  • Charters Towers
  • Gold Coast
  • Cloncurry Shire
  • Croydon Shire
  • Diamantina Shire
  • Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire
  • Etheridge Shire
  • Flinders Shire
  • Fraser Coast
  • Gladstone
  • Goondiwindi
  • Gympie
  • Livingstone Shire
  • Lockyer Valley
  • Longreach Shire
  • Maranoa
  • McKinlay Shire
  • Mount Isa
  • Flinders Shire
  • Noosa Shire
  • Paroo Shire
  • Quilpie Shire
  • Richmond Shire
  • Rockhampton
  • Southern Downs
  • Sunshine Coast
  • Townsville
  • Western Downs
  • Mount Isa

Funding acknowledgment

The package is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments to support Queensland communities in their recovery from the Western Queensland Surface Trough and Associated Rainfall and Flooding 21 March – 19 May 2025.

Administering agency

Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Media statement

Queensland Government crest
22 July 2025: Another $191 million to drive western Queensland’s recovery
(External link: https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/103135)

Last updated 22 July 2025.