Disaster Ready Fund 2025/2026

Round 3 Disaster Ready Fund (DRF) Funded Projects.

On 17 November 2025, the Australian Government announced the projects to be funded under Round 3 of the DRF.

In SA, 7 projects will receive funding to strengthen disaster resilience and preparedness. These initiatives include infrastructure projects focused on mitigating the risks associated with floods, developing critical plans, mapping of public and private firefighting infrastructure and projects which focus on strengthening preparedness and resilience in regional SA.

The list of SA-funded projects is below. For the complete National list, please visit the NEMA website.

Project Title	Location	Cth Funding	Co-contribution	Total Project Cost
Outback Ready: emergency management plan development for Outback SA communities	Unincorporated SA	$528,807.00	$92,436.00	$621,243.00
Roots of Resilience: Safe Country, Strong Future	Ceduna; Cleve; Elliston; Franklin Harbour; Kimba; Lower Eyre Peninsula; Port Lincoln; Streaky Bay; Tumby Bay; Whyalla; Wudinna; Yorke Peninsula	$2,457,032.00	$273,400.00	$2,730,432.00
Securing Firefighting Water for Bushfire Resilience in the Coorong Tatiara Area	Coorong; Tatiara	$122,000.00	$137,000.00	$259,000.00
Climate Ready Coasts 2.0: Scaling evidence-based coastal risk reduction	Adelaide Plains; Alexandrina; Barunga West; Ceduna; Charles Sturt; Cleve; Coorong; Copper Coast; Elliston; Franklin Harbour; Grant; Holdfast Bay; Kangaroo Island; Kingston (SA); Lower Eyre Peninsula; Marion; Mount Remarkable; Onkaparinga; Playford; Port Adelaide Enfield; Port Augusta; Port Lincoln; Port Pirie; Robe; Salisbury; Streaky Bay; Tumby Bay; Victor Harbor; Wakefield; Wattle Range; West Torrens; Whyalla; Yankalilla; Yorke Peninsula	$2,200,000.00	$2,200,000.00	$4,400,000.00
Investment-Ready Business Case for Gawler River Floodplain Flood Mitigation	Adelaide Hills; Adelaide Plains; Barossa; Gawler; Light; Playford	$774,000.00	$870,278.00	$1,644,278.00
Disaster preparedness - building RediCommunities in Naracoorte Lucindale, Yankalilla, Port Lincoln and Mid Murray	Mid Murray; Naracoorte Lucindale; Port Lincoln; Yankalilla	$2,200,000.00	$550,000.00	$2,750,000.00
Building Wakefields's Flood Resilience - Stage 1	Wakefield	$1,600,634.00	$1,600,637.00	$3,201,271.00

Project Title

Location

Cth Funding

Co-contribution

Total Project Cost

Outback Ready: emergency management plan development for Outback SA communities

Unincorporated SA

$528,807.00

$92,436.00

$621,243.00

Roots of Resilience: Safe Country, Strong Future

Ceduna; Cleve; Elliston; Franklin Harbour; Kimba; Lower Eyre Peninsula; Port Lincoln; Streaky Bay; Tumby Bay; Whyalla; Wudinna; Yorke Peninsula

$2,457,032.00

$273,400.00

$2,730,432.00

Securing Firefighting Water for Bushfire Resilience in the Coorong Tatiara Area

Coorong; Tatiara

$122,000.00

$137,000.00

$259,000.00

Climate Ready Coasts 2.0: Scaling evidence-based coastal risk reduction

Adelaide Plains; Alexandrina; Barunga West; Ceduna; Charles Sturt; Cleve; Coorong; Copper Coast; Elliston; Franklin Harbour; Grant; Holdfast Bay; Kangaroo Island; Kingston (SA); Lower Eyre Peninsula; Marion; Mount Remarkable; Onkaparinga; Playford; Port Adelaide Enfield; Port Augusta; Port Lincoln; Port Pirie; Robe; Salisbury; Streaky Bay; Tumby Bay; Victor Harbor; Wakefield; Wattle Range; West Torrens; Whyalla; Yankalilla; Yorke Peninsula

$2,200,000.00

$4,400,000.00

Investment-Ready Business Case for Gawler River Floodplain Flood Mitigation

Adelaide Hills; Adelaide Plains; Barossa; Gawler; Light; Playford

$774,000.00

$870,278.00

$1,644,278.00

Disaster preparedness - building RediCommunities in Naracoorte Lucindale, Yankalilla, Port Lincoln and Mid Murray

Mid Murray; Naracoorte Lucindale; Port Lincoln; Yankalilla

$2,200,000.00

$550,000.00

$2,750,000.00

Building Wakefields's Flood Resilience - Stage 1

Wakefield

$1,600,634.00

$1,600,637.00

$3,201,271.00