We have information in different languages about Disaster Recovery Allowance
Disaster Recovery Allowance
Disaster assistance payments audio
For Centrelink payments and services, you can call our multilingual phone service.
You have until 19 August 2025 to make a claim for the following Local Government Areas (LGAs):
- Barcaldine
- Blackall-Tambo
- Boulia
- Burdekin
- Cairns
- Carpentaria
- Cassowary Coast
- Charters Towers
- Cloncurry
- Cook
- Croydon
- Diamantina
- Douglas
- Etheridge
- Flinders
- Hinchinbrook
- Hope Vale
- Kowanyama
- Longreach
- McKinlay
- Northern Peninsula Area
- Palm Island
- Richmond
- Pormpuraaw
- Tablelands
- Townsville
- Whitsunday
- Winton
- Wujal Wujal
- Yarrabah.
To see emergency information about your LGA, you can enter your address into the Queensland Government’s find your local council tool.