2025 Betterment Fund
About
Betterment allows local governments and state agencies to rebuild essential public assets to a more resilient standard to help them withstand the impacts of future natural disasters.
Examples include improvements to vital infrastructure such as roads, bridges and floodways. These can vary from stabilisation of low-lying roads to reduce erosion and scouring, upgrades to drainage structures to increase capacity or replacing gravel with reinforced concrete to improve resilience.
Queensland Betterment Funds are jointly funded (50:50) by the Australian and Queensland Governments.
Given the record-breaking season, multiple Betterment funds were established in 2025 to better prepare regions across Queensland for future weather events.
2025 Betterment Funds
The $155 million Betterment Program aims to improve access to western and central Queensland by upgrading essential state-owned roads to a more resilient standard.
$205 million to build a more resilient Bruce Highway and other key state-owned connection roads and assets like Ollera Creek Bridge, allowing them to be built back to a more resilient standard.