Legal Assistance Recovery - 2025 Tropical Cyclone Alfred and Associated Rainfall and Flooding

About

The $2.85 million Legal Assistance Recovery funding is for  community legal and case management services including support with insurance, housing and finances to assist recovery from the Tropical Cyclone Alfred and Associated Severe Weather, 1 - 16 March 2025 event.

Objectives

The Legal Assistance Disaster Relief Package will support the delivery of legal assistance services to individuals and communities (small business, primary producers and not-for-profit organisations) in areas affected by the disaster event. The outcomes of the package will be:

For individuals, households, families and small businesses:

• Trauma-informed legal assistance services delivered to parties rendered vulnerable as a result of the natural disaster event.
• People and communities are empowered to understand and assert their legal rights and responsibilities to address, or prevent, their legal problems.
• Community members receive appropriate health and social services, through appropriate referrals.
• Displaced populations are reconnected with essential legal frameworks and social services.
• Households, families, and individuals have the legal information needed to make decisions.
• Small businesses have the legal information and support they need to continue recovering from the natural disaster.

For to the community

• Community members are able to respond to their own needs and to support other members of the community.
• Community members are better prepared in the event of future natural disasters and legal networks and support mechanisms are more capable of adapting to emergencies when these occur.

Eligible council areas

• Brisbane City Council
• Bundaberg Regional Council
• Fraser Coast Regional Council
• Gold Coast City Council
• Gympie Regional Council
• Ipswich City Council
• Livingstone Shire Council
• Lockyer Valley Regional Council
• Logan City Council
• Moreton Bay City Council
• Noosa Shire Council
• Redland City Council
• Scenic Rim Regional Council
• Somerset Regional Council
• Southern Downs Regional Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council
• Toowoomba Regional Council

Status

In delivery

Administering agency

Department of Justice

Funding acknowledgement

The package is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments to support Queensland communities in their recovery from Tropical Cyclone Alfred, commencing 1 March 2025 event.

Media statement