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FED up with the sluggish response from insurance companies in assisting residents to get their lives back on track after the devastating Halloween hailstorms, Ipswich City Council has decided to take action.
The damage bill for last year’s storms which hammered Ipswich and Logan is close to $1 billion and only a quarter of building claims have been completed more than four months on.
More than 39,000 claims have been lodged.
The most recent assessment by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority found 478 properties battered by storms had been repaired and 1297 were still damaged.
Of those damaged properties, 704 remain tarped and 341 are still uninhabitable.
Queensland communities can now apply for a share of more than $19 million in resilience and risk reduction funding to help reduce, mitigate and manage.
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Queensland welcomes disaster assistance to support northern producers
Minister for Police and Corrective Services and Minister for Fire and Emergency Services The Honourable Mark Ryan
Critical disaster assistance will now flow to primary producers in North Queensland impacted by Tropical Cyclone Niran.
Financial assistance is being provided through the jointly funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).
Queensland Minister for Fire and Emergency Services Mark Ryan said the activation of the DRFA was vital to help kick-start the recovery of impacted primary producers in Cassowary Coast, Cairns, Hinchinbrook, Mareeba and Tablelands.
“This activation is critical to providing financial support so that impacted producers can begin to recover from the effects of the cyclone,” Minister Ryan said.