Queenslanders shine at the 2025 Resilient Australia Awards

29 August 2025

Outstanding local contributions to disaster resilience have been recognised at the 2025 Queensland Resilient Australia Awards during a ceremony held in Brisbane overnight.

Now in its eighth year, the annual awards celebrate community-focused initiatives helping to strengthen our collective safety and preparedness for future disaster events. 

This year's award recipients showcased Queensland's strong sense of innovation and collaboration across communities, schools, government and business, and include:

  • The Yellow Company (Business) – Wujal Wujal Rising: A Community-first Recovery Project
  • Resilient Kurilpa (Community) – Community-led Flood Resilience on the Kurilpa Peninsula
  • Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (Government) – The Fire Management Uplift Program: reimagining fire, capability and culture
  • Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council, with Meridian Urban and Water Technology (Local Government) – Wujal Wujal Master Plan Review
  • Logan City Council, with Leadrrr (Mental Health and Wellbeing) – Student Voice in Disaster Resilience: A Walking Fence Exhibition
  • Smithfield State High School (Schools) – Sustaining the Tropics Through Resilient Communities
  • Geovert – Adel Namehi (Photography) – Emergency response: Night infrastructure stabilisation, Far North Queensland

Projects by Reef Catchments (Mackay Whitsunday Isaac) and City of Gold Coast were also recognised with highly commended honours.

The 2025 Queensland Resilient Australia Awards represent the broad spectrum of community-driven resilience-building that's come to define Queensland as the most resilient state in Australia.

Notably, involvement from students and young people has demonstrated the critical role of the next generation in shaping a safer, more robust Queensland, and lessons from Indigenous communities have allowed resilience to be viewed through a different lens.

Whether looking to improve mental health outcomes and urban planning decisions, protecting the environment, or fostering greater preparedness in remote communities, every winning project is improving the lives of ordinary Queenslanders.

The awards reinforce that disaster resilience is not just the responsibility of a few but a shared goal for all.

This year's Queensland Resilient Australia Award winners will now vie for a national Resilient Australia Award, which will be announced from Canberra later this year.

The Queensland Resilient Australia Awards are managed by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) and delivered in partnership with the Queensland Government’s Get Ready Queensland program and Suncorp. 

For more information visit the AIDR website.