Deadline: 9 July 2024
Funding is now available for primary producers impacted by south-east Queensland severe storms and rainfall.
What do you get?
- Funding of up to $75,000.
- The maximum grant amount is $75,000 and is available through 2 applications:
- An initial amount of up to $10,000 is available to support an initial claim. Evidence of the direct damage such as photographs, quotations, tax invoices and official receipts is required.
- A subsequent amount of up to $65,000 is available to support subsequent claims for which full evidence of payment is required.
Activities
Eligible clean-up, reinstatement activities and emergency measures include:
- equipment and materials to undertake clean-up
- additional labour costs (above and beyond normal wage expenditure, i.e. day-to-day staffing)
- disposing of damaged goods and injured or dead livestock, including associated costs
- repairs to buildings (other than housing)
- fencing not covered by any other assistance
- reconditioning/repairing essential plant and equipment
- salvaging crops, grain and feeds
- purchase or hire/lease costs for equipment essential to the immediate resumption of the business
- payment for tradespeople to conduct safety inspections
- essential repairs to premises and internal fittings that is not covered by insurance.
Who is this for?
- Queensland primary producers affected by south-east Queensland severe storms and rainfall, 24 December 2023 to 3 January 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, you must:
- be a Queensland primary producer
- hold an Australian business number (ABN) and have held that ABN at the time of the eligible disaster
- have a primary production enterprise that is located in the defined area for the eligible disaster that has suffered direct damage as a result of the eligible disaster
- have been engaged in carrying on the primary production enterprise when affected by the eligible disaster
- be primarily responsible for meeting the costs claimed in the application
- intend to re-establish the primary production enterprise in the defined disaster area for the eligible disaster.
For more information, visit Australian Government.
