Low take-up of north Queensland flood relief prompts questions about offering debt to get out of crisis

The Federal Government is trying work out why less than a quarter of the $300 million it released in the wake of the north Queensland floods was taken up by farmers, two years after the disaster.

Only $66 million has been claimed by north Queensland farmers.

In the months after the floods, $400,000 grants were offered to primary producers, who needed to match the funding with their own…