Case studies

Goodna resident Paul Harding and his family were among the first Queenslanders to accept a Resilient Homes Fund buy-back offer after their family home was devastated in the 2022 floods.

An elevated acre-block in Fernvale, away from the threat of rising waters, with a flying fox for the kids.

That’s what Dirk de Vos, his wife and two children can now look forward to after accepting their buy back offer through the $741 million Resilient Homes Fund.

Just weeks from swinging open the doors for the very first time, Body Fit Training in Ipswich was hit by the South East Queensland flooding.

Owner, Aryan Taefi said it was upsetting to see his staff’s hard work come undone when more than one metre of water washed through the premises.

You don’t have to be an accountant to know that an extraordinary amount of rain - plus a small amount of time - equals trouble.  

But Paddy Beeraka from Tax Today is an accountant, so after the flood waters swept through his business he knew what to do next.

In late February 2022, a job site in Willowbank was inundated by water as a result of the severe South East Queensland flooding.

Today we'd like you to meet Joe. He runs Science Of Fitness in West End, Brisbane.

His gym was directly affected by the #seqfloods with knee height water going through the building causing damage to equipment, flooring and the walls.

A move from Castlemaine Street in Milton to Albion wasn’t enough to save the Milton Rum Distillery from the flood waters that devastated much of South East Queensland in early 2022.

Roger Wagner has been left living in a caravan after almost three metres of water came rushing through his home and backyard business.

Deagon Dress Ups owner Katy Hardiman was just days away from opening her costume and equipment hire shop when the South East Queensland floods came through, leaving boxes of costumes, fabrics and handmade garments floating through the premises.  

After the extreme rain event in late February 2022 Josef Selway, co-owner of Blue & Grae – a business in Albion that creates hand-made leather goods – was expecting his workshop to flood and prepared for what was thought to be the worst case scenario by moving things upstairs or putting them on top of high workbenches.