Posts tagged "flood"

Insurance premiums could fall if insurers did a better job of recognising the disaster mitigation efforts taken by their policy-holders, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones said.

Victorian communities have rallied around small businesses affected by severe flooding, as shopfronts in Echuca brace for the chance of further inundation in the coming days.

The scheme was designed to bolster the state's tradie workforce after the devastating floods which impacted southeast Queensland in March and early April.

As SMEs across Sydney count the cost of yet another flood disaster, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed the nation's top economic department will resume its modelling of the risks posed by climate change.

Business owners in Lismore, NSW say a sluggish response from insurers and the government, coupled with a lack of trade, have effectively stalled the flood recovery effort.

Resilience NSW has so far signed off on 400 disaster relief grants, even though almost 8000 requests for help have been lodged since applications opened earlier this month.

As the flooding crisis continues in New South Wales and Queensland, new packages are set to provide grants of up to $50,000 for affected SMEs.

The Coalition has revealed a policy to provide support to small businesses after natural disasters which it claims will stop viable and prof…

The taxman knows that recent natural disasters will have thrown people’s lives and their businesses into turmoil, and he intends to help, wi…