Case studies

Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council’s Buddabaddo Road has had eight locations of the road upgraded with 25 metres concrete pavements as well as concrete margins to increase the road’s resilience to natural disasters.

One of Townsville City Council’s betterment projects to increase their road network’s resilience to natural disasters has already been put through its ‘paces’.

Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council’s Wallaby Point Road received more than $800,000 in betterment funding to concrete and raise a section of Wallaby Point Road and to upgrade culverts.

McKinlay Shire Council’s received $3.5 million in betterment funding for Gilliat-McKinlay Road to seal a 25-kilometre section of the important rural transport route to make it more resilient and accessible during severe weather.

Hinchinbrook Shire Council’s Barbagallos Road in Halifax has been upgraded to build resilience to withstand high velocity flows during flooding events through the 2019 betterment program.

Barbagallos Road is an unsealed road transport route for many of the region’s sugarcane farmers.

Sedan Dip Road in Cloncurry Shire Council has been rebuilt better than ever after it was damaged by the monsoon and floods in February 2019.

The Aurukun Access Road has been made even more resilient to severe weather thanks to $1.2 million in betterment funding.

Images of the flash flooding through Toowoomba’s CBD became one of the iconic memories of the Queensland floods in January 2011. 

In 2015, Toowoomba Regional Council completed $25 million worth of flood mitigation projects, ensuring the city is more resilient to future flooding events.

The tiny town of Cardwell on the Cassowary Coast in North Queensland bore the brunt of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi in February 2011.

The 2011 floods destroyed Brisbane’s iconic Riverwalk and seven of Brisbane City Council’s ferry terminals.