Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements
The joint Australian, state and territory governments' 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 Kirrily, the available assistance measures include:
Personal Hardship Assistance Scheme and the Essential Services Safety and Reconnection Scheme in the nine (9) local government areas of:
- Burdekin
- Burke
- Charters Towers
- Doomadgee
- Hinchinbrook
- McKinlay
- Moreton Bay
- Townsville
- Western Downs
For information on these schemes and eligibility, visit the Queensland Government Community Recovery website or phone the Community Recovery hotline on 1800 173 349.
Counter Disaster Operations in the thirty-one (31) local government areas of:
- Balonne
- Barcoo
- Boulia
- Burdekin
- Burke
- Carpentaria
- Charters Towers
- Cloncurry
- Croydon
- Diamantina
- Doomadgee
- Etheridge
- Flinders
- Hinchinbrook
- Ipswich
- Lockyer Valley
- Maranoa
- McKinlay
- Moreton Bay
- Mornington
- Mount Isa
- Palm Island
- Richmond
- Scenic Rim
- Somerset
- South Burnett
- Southern Downs
- Sunshine Coast
- Townsville
- Western Downs
- Winton
Restoration of essential public assets in the thirty‐eight (38) local government areas of:
- Balonne
- Barcaldine
- Barcoo
- Blackall-Tambo
- Boulia
- Bulloo
- Burke
- Carpentaria
- Central Highlands
- Charters Towers
- Cloncurry
- Croydon
- Diamantina
- Doomadgee
- Etheridge
- Flinders
- Gladstone
- Goondiwindi
- Ipswich
- Lockyer Valley
- Longreach
- Maranoa
- McKinlay
- Moreton Bay
- Mornington
- Mount Isa
- Murweh
- North Burnett
- Palm Island
- Richmond
- Scenic Rim
- Somerset
- South Burnett
- Southern Downs
- Toowoomba
- Townsville
- Western Downs
- Winton
Disaster Assistance Loans, Essential Working Capital Loans and Freight Subsidies for primary producers in the fifteen (15) local government areas of:
- Boulia
- Burdekin
- Burke
- Charters Towers
- Cloncurry
- Doomadgee
- Etheridge
- Lockyer Valley
- McKinlay
- Moreton Bay
- Mount Isa
- Richmond
- Townsville
- Western Downs
- Winton
For information on primary producer loans including eligibility, visit the Business Queensland Natural Disaster assistance website.
For information on available recovery assistance, visit the Queensland Reconstruction Authority website.
For further information on recovery arrangements, visit the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements 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.
Heavy Rainfall and Flooding – City of Moreton Bay Local Government Area (January 2024)
Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment
The Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment (AGDRP) provides one-off financial assistance to eligible Australians adversely affected by the heavy rainfall and flooding in the local government area of Moreton Bay in January 2024.
The rate of AGDRP is $1000 per eligible adult and $400 per eligible child. Claims for this payment can be lodged with Services Australia for a period up to 6 months.
AGDRP is available for people who have been seriously injured, have lost their homes or whose homes have been directly damaged, whose major assets have been directly damaged or are the immediate family members of an Australian citizen or resident who has died as a direct result of the heavy rainfall and flooding.
You have until 11 August 2024 to lodge a claim for AGDRP in the one suburb of Bray Park within the local government area of Moreton Bay.
For more information on eligibility, visit the Services Australia website or contact the Australian Government Information Hotline on 180 22 66 for claims assistance.
New Zealand Disaster Recovery Payment
The New Zealand Disaster Recovery Payment (NZ DRP) is available to eligible New Zealand 'non-protected' special category visa (SCV) (subclass 444) holders who have been adversely affected by the heavy rainfall and flooding in the local government area of Moreton Bay in January 2024.
The payment rate is $1000 per eligible adult, and $400 per eligible child. Claims for this payment can be lodged with Services Australia for a period of 6 months.
The payment is available for non-protected SCV holders who have been seriously injured, have lost their homes or whose homes have been directly damaged, whose major assets have been directly damaged or are the immediate family members of an Australian citizen or resident who has died as a direct result of the heavy rainfall and flooding.
You have until 11 August 2024 to lodge a claim for NZ DRP in the one suburb of Bray Park within the local government area of Moreton Bay.
For eligibility information, visit the Services Australia website or contact the Australian Government Information Hotline on 180 22 66 for claims assistance.
