Winners of the 2022 Get Ready Queensland Resilient Australia Awards

Queensland’s resilience to disasters shines through awards

9 September 2022
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.
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Flood report builds back better

1 August 2022
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.
DARM follow-up July 2022, South Brisbane

Follow-up assessments provide snapshot of south-east Queensland flood recovery

27 July 2022
Almost 40 per cent of the homes and commercial buildings impacted by the south-east Queensland floods are no longer showing signs of damage, and repairs have started on almost one-third of the properties still damaged.
EOI now open - Community rec assets

$105 million to repair flood damaged recreational assets

24 June 2022
Extraordinary disaster assistance of $105 million is now available to local councils and state agencies to clean up and repair community and recreational assets damaged in the major floods of the 2021-22 disaster season.
Flooded interior

Science of Fitness - Extraordinary Disaster Assistance Recovery Grant recipient

9 June 2022

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.
Post-2022 floods in Lockyer Valley.

Disaster loans available to more flood hit Queensland small business and not-for-profits

6 June 2022
Low interest loans up to $100,000 have been extended to small businesses and not-for-profits in more local government areas following the latest flooding to inundate southern Queensland.
Flooded tray

Bornen Constructions Willowbank benefit from Government grant

31 May 2022

Flood-affected small businesses across the Southeast have been thrown a lifeline from the Australian and Queensland governments, with grants of up to $50,000 now available.

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

Milton Rum Distillery – Extraordinary Disaster Assistance Recovery Grant recipient

25 May 2022

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.
$720.6 million

$720.61 million DRFA Phase 3 package approved

19 May 2022
The Australian and Queensland Governments will each invest $360 million under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) to support extraordinary flood recovery across Queensland.
Damaged workshop

Metal fabrication business - Extraordinary Disaster Assistance Recovery Grant recipient

17 May 2022

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