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Disaster Ready Fund Round Four

Program Details and Eligibility

Applications for Round Four of the Disaster Ready Fund are now open and will close at 5:00PM AEDT on Wednesday, 1 July 2026.

What is the Disaster Ready Fund?

The Australian Government’s Disaster Ready Fund Round Four will build on previous rounds by making up to $142 million available to fund projects that build resilience, prepare for, or reduce the risk of, future natural hazard impacts across Australia.

The Australian Government designs and funds the Disaster Ready Fund and selects successful projects. State and territory governments administer the program within their jurisdictions.

Resilience and Recovery Tasmania (RRT), within the Department of Premier and Cabinet, is the Lead Agency for the Disaster Ready Fund in Tasmania.

Who is eligible?

Applicants must:

  • have an Australian Business Number (ABN); or
  • be a state, territory or local government body in an eligible jurisdiction; or
  • be a First Nations organisation or Not-for-Profit organisation, as defined in the DRF Guidelines glossary;
  • have the capacity to enter into a legally binding agreement; and
  • not be an entity listed as ineligible under section 4.3 of the DRF Guidelines.

Further eligibility requirements are set out in the Disaster Ready Fund - Round Four Guidelines

Privacy Declaration

We pledge to respect and uphold your rights to privacy protection under the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) as established under the Privacy Act 1988 and amended by the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012. For more information, go to Tasmanian Government Personal Information Protection (www.tas.gov.au).

Please note by submitting this application form you:

  • are agreeing to allow Department of Premier and Cabinet to share your information for the purposes of assessing your grant application, and
  • acknowledge that some information in relation to this grant such as the recipient's name, funding purpose, amount, location and any other details the department may consider appropriate will be made public as part of a fair and transparent process when disbursing public funds.