Transport-related drought assistance

Primary producer eligibility

You are eligible for drought assistance if your property has been drought-declared through either:

• an individual droughted property declaration
• a regional council/shire declaration.

Find maps of drought-declared areas.

For any of the assistance measures to be applied to a vehicle, you must:

• be a registered operator of the vehicle
• be a primary producer
• garage the vehicle within a drought-declared area or property
• be using the vehicle only for primary production or private purposes.

You can’t apply for assistance for conditionally registered vehicles or vehicles receiving a farm plate concession.

Applying for drought assistance

To apply for these drought assistance measures, visit your local Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Customer Service Centre with evidence that your property is in a drought-declared area. You can provide a copy of either:

• an Individually Droughted Property Approval (provided by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries)
• documentary evidence of address. This must be in the form of a Category A, Category B or Queensland garaging address document as listed within the evidence of identity requirements for individuals form (PDF, 173KB) and clearly display your name, address and the issuer of the document.