Queensland communities affected by devastating weather events last summer will benefit from $19.5 million in Flexible Funding Grants to drive recovery and resilience projects.
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The Queensland Government will provide $10 million towards 22 council projects aiming to reduce disaster risk and lower insurance costs for residents, businesses and communities in North Queensland.
Assistance for counter disaster operations and the repair of roads is now available for the Lockyer Valley, Balonne and Barcoo local government areas following severe storms occurring from 19-27 October 2022.
Disaster assistance is now available in the Gold Coast and Scenic Rim after a severe storm caused floods and landslides in the south-east in September.
With Australia in line for a third La Nina season in a row, Queenslanders are being urged to prepare their families and property for possible natural disasters. That’s the message during Get Ready Queensland Week, which launched today in Brisbane and Rockhampton.
A new five-year strategy to strengthen disaster resilience in Queensland will further improve the state’s capacity to deal with natural disasters and climate change.
The 2021-22 Southern Queensland Floods State Recovery and Resilience Plan 2022-24 shows both the scale of the disaster and the work underway to recover.
Primary producers in southern Queensland will soon have support from specialised resilience officers to help them recover from recent natural disasters and plan for future events.
Twenty-three flood-impacted homeowners in Goodna and Brisbane have become the first Queenslanders to accept a voluntary home buy back offer as part of the $741 million Resilient Homes Fund.
Projects helping build Queensland’s resilience to natural disasters were on show at the 2022 Get Ready Queensland Resilient Australia Awards, held in Brisbane on Thursday 8 September.