If you’re a primary producer impacted by the Western Queensland floods, you can now apply for the Exclusion Fencing Recovery Grant of up to $500,000 to help you recover. 

Applicants must:

• Operate a sheep, cattle or goat grazing enterprise in an eligible LGA,
• Be a registered landholder with functional fencing at the time of the event,
• Demonstrate damage to exclusion or cluster fencing caused by the disaster,
• Comply with fencing specifications, documentation and GST registration requirements.

The grant provides up to $500,000 in funding to cover a range of activities, including:

• Cleaning up,
• Repairing or replacing fencing
• Hiring contractors
• Covering costs like materials and equipment hire.

Exclusion Fencing Recovery Grant Application Guidelines

The Remote Area Planning and Development Board Incorporated (RAPAD) are the local service providers for applicants who have grazing enterprises located within the Barcoo Shire. 

Please contact the below project officers at RAPAD to express your interest to apply for this recovery grant:

Project Officers:
Lenice Jarling
Phone: 0409 129 578
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Emily O'Hanlon
Phone: 0438 185 677
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Alternatively you can contact Morgan Gronold 

Morgan Gronold 
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Phone: 0448 739 759
Exclusion Fencing Recovery Program - RAPAD

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Last Updated: 23 September 2025

The Barcoo Shire Council has been granted an extension to apply for extraordinary financial assistance under a capped funding arrangement, to support clean-up and recovery efforts after the Western Queensland Disaster Event in early 2025.  Eligible activities must be incurred on or after the 2nd of April 2025 up to and including the 30th of September 2025.

The Guidelines have not been amended to date, but the completion date for eligible activities has now changed to 30 September 2025.  A link to the Guidelines is below.  

If you are a rural landholder affected by the Western Queensland Disaster Event in March/April 2025 and you can answer YES to any of the below you may be eligible for funding. 

Eligible activities related to clean up and make safe activities required because of the disaster event may include:

• Aerial surveillance of livestock.
• Clean up, removal, disposal and burial of animal carcasses.
• Euthanising distressed livestock.
• Disposal and transportation of associated silt, debris and building waste; and
• Extraordinary urgent repairs to fencing for exclusion of stock from public areas (not eligible under Category B of the DRFA).

Eligible costs must be incurred on or after 02 April 2025 

If you are claiming for reimbursement, please generate an invoice addressed to Barcoo Shire Council, detailing:

• If you used a contractor to undertake the eligible activity. Please invoice this amount, with a copy of the contractor’s invoice as evidence; and/or
• If you did not use a contractor to undertake the eligible activity, please invoice based on your costs incurred.

Ensure all invoices specifically detail one or more of the eligible activities listed above.  For the best chance of a successful application (particularly for non-contractor invoices) include as much information as possible such as flight logbooks, diary entries, photos and a breakdown of aircraft operating costs to demonstrate the actual expenditure incurred.

The funding is capped and is assessed by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority on a case-by-case basis.

All claims are subject to audit, and applicants may be required to provide additional information or supporting documentation upon request. Costs cannot be claimed under this fund if they have already been claimed under another assistance program or package.

Council will compile all invoices and submit them to the Queensland Reconstruction Authority.

Invoices must be received by Council by 21 November 2025

If the QRA deems your claim to be ineligible, Barcoo Shire Council will be unable to pay the claim.

Should you require further clarification or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Darren Grimwade, Manager for Community Services on (07) 4658 6900.

Download the Community Notice here.

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Last Updated: 14 October 2025

Purpose:

a grant to help owner/occupied households reconnect essential services that were damaged by a disaster. Up to $200 towards a safety inspection for each essential service needing reconnection (electricity, gas, water and sewerage or septic system) and up to $4,200 towards repair work to enable essential services to be reconnected (for example, electrical rewiring).

Contact Details/Links:

Essential services safety and reconnection scheme | Community support | Queensland Government

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Last Updated: 06 May 2025

Delivered by:

QRIDA

Purpose:

Grants of up to $75,000 are available for affected producers following the Western Queensland Surface Trough and Associated Rainfall and Flooding, commencing 21 March 2025, to hire or purchase equipment and materials, clean up, remove debris, replace fencing and other costs associated with the recovery process. Producers should take photographs of the direct damage to accompany their application/s.

Applicants need to show they are an eligible primary producer, within the declared disaster area and demonstrate they have suffered direct impact from the disaster. Read below and the guidelines for more information.

The maximum grant amount is $75,000 and can be accessed through the following:

• Initial application/s up to the total amount of $5,000 is available to support an initial claim. Evidence of the direct damage is required such as photographs and quotations, tax invoices or official receipts.
• Subsequent application/s up to the total amount of $70,000 is available to support subsequent claims for which full evidence of payment is required.

Complete applications are assessed in order of receipt and QRIDA may request further information to help assess an application.

Criteria:

The Minister for Fire and Emergency Services has activated disaster assistance for Western Queensland Surface Trough and Associated Rainfall and Flooding, commencing 21 March.

To be eligible for assistance your property must be located in one of the defined disaster areas:

• Barcoo Shire Council 
• Boulia Shire Council 
• Bulloo Shire Council 
• Diamantina Shire Council 
• Longreach Shire Council 
• Murweh Shire Council 
• Paroo Shire Council
• Quilpie Shire Council 
• Winton Shire Council

Amount Available / Cost to Access :

up to $75,000

Contact Details/Links:

Exceptional Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants - Western

How to Apply:

Applications close 2 April 2026. - Exceptional Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants - Western

A new application must be completed for an initial and subsequent application.

Applications can be submitted online via QRIDA's Application Portal or by downloading the application form and submitting to QRIDA by email or post. 

If using the paper application form, please ensure you download and save to your computer before completing the form.

To email your application, please attach documents as a pdf, jpeg, png, doc or excel. Please do not send links.

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Last Updated: 06 May 2025

Purpose:

• Funding is available for eligible sport and active recreation organisations located in disaster declared areas as identified on the Queensland Reconstruction Authority Activations web page.
• Assistance is available where Personal Hardship Assistance (Category A) or Reconstruction of Public Assets (Category B) are listed.

Criteria:

• When activated, the Sport and Recreation Disaster Recovery Program supports not-for-profit sport and recreation organisations with funding to re-establish their facilities and activities after extreme natural events, including floods, fire, cyclones and severe storms.

Amount Available / Cost to Access :

• A grant of up to $5000 ex GST is available for eligible items.

Contact Details/Links:

• Organisations must register an account in our Grant Registration Portal to apply for funding.

How to Apply:

• Organisations must register an account in our Grant Registration Portal to apply for funding.

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Last Updated: 03 April 2025