Disaster Recovery Allowance

Support if you’ve lost income as a direct result of Western Queensland heavy rain and flooding that started in March 2025.

If your Disaster Recovery Allowance or New Zealand Disaster Recovery Allowance is ending

If your disaster support payment is ending, you can find out what other payments and services you may be eligible for.

You have until 14 October 2025 to make a claim for the following Local Government Areas (LGAs):

  • Balonne
  • Barcaldine
  • Barcoo
  • Blackall-Tambo
  • Boulia
  • Bulloo
  • Burke
  • Carpentaria
  • Central Highlands
  • Charters Towers
  • Cloncurry
  • Croydon
  • Diamantina
  • Doomadgee
  • Etheridge
  • Flinders
  • Longreach
  • Maranoa
  • Mount Isa
  • Murweh
  • Paroo
  • Quilpie
  • Richmond
  • Winton.

To see emergency information about your LGA, you can enter your address into the Queensland Government’s find your local council tool.

Page last updated: 16 April 2025.
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