Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements
The joint Australian, state and territory government
Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) provide a range of financial assistance to the natural disaster-declared areas in each state or territory.
For tropical cyclone Imogen which impacted parts of North Queensland from 2-12 January, the available assistance measures include:
- counter disaster operations
- Burdekin
- Burke
- Cairns
- Carpentaria
- Cassowary Coast
- Charters Towers
- Cook
- Croydon
- Doomadgee
- Etheridge
- Hinchinbrook
- Kowanyama
- Mareeba
- Mornington
- Mount Isa
- Palm Island
- Pormpuraaw
- Tablelands
- Townsville
- Whitsunday
- restoration of damaged essential public assets.
- Burke
- Cairns
- Carpentaria
- Cassowary Coast
- Charters Towers
- Cook
- Croydon
- Doomadgee
- Etheridge
- Hinchinbrook
- Kowanyama
- Mareeba
- Mornington
- Mount Isa
- Palm Island
- Pormpuraaw
- Tablelands
- Townsville
- Whitsunday
For information on available recovery assistance, visit the Queensland Reconstruction Authority website.
For further information on recovery arrangements, visit the
Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements 2018 page.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will replace passports that have been lost or damaged in declared natural disasters free of charge, visit the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website.
