National Aerial Firefighting Program

Overview

This program facilitates the lease of a fleet of highly specialised firefighting aircraft that are readily available for use by State and Territory emergency service and land management agencies across Australia. This program also plays a key role in ensuring the sharing of aerial firefighting resources between emergency service and land management agencies throughout Australia. The maximum grant amount is $55,790,000 (includes $44,790,000 over three years from 2018-19 to 2020-21 and the additional $11,000,000 announced on 5 December 2018 to be provided in 2018-19) The grant amount will be up to 100 per cent of eligible project costs. The maximum grant period is three years.