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.  

A $25,000 disaster recovery grant has helped a small business owner in Ipswich get back in the swing 

Just weeks away from opening its doors for the very first time, Body Fit Training was hit by major flooding in early 2022.

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.

For Austral Croissants owner Sylvain Desvignes things weren’t as bad the second time around but the 2022 South East Queensland floods still left his Rocklea factory with 20 centimetres of water through the bread manufacturing premises.