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The SIF is an incentive-based initiative to assist businesses within the seafood sector in NSW to identify and address risks to their business, improve permanent assets and infrastructure, ensure long term productivity and sustainable use of the marine, estuarine and land-based environment, while aiding in building resilience to changes in seasonal conditions. The availability of loans is subject to funds being available.

The low interest rate loans are intended to enable the fishing and aquaculture industries to focus on long term business profitability and long term benefits for the sustainability of the marine, estuarine and land-based environment. The low interest loans assist investment in four key areas:

• Preparedness: risk reduction and adaptability to changing seasonal conditionals and climatic events.
• Environment: promoting environmentally sustainable fishing and farming infrastructure, methodologies and equipment to minimise impact on the environment.
• Fishing and Aquaculture Farming Equipment and Assets: replacing unsafe or inefficient assets and equipment to ensure business best practice, legal requirements, and safety and environmental standards are met.
• Transport & Logistics: ensuring that product reaches markets in optimum condition through holding tanks and refrigeration units, new transport systems, and new market software.

Extreme weather events such as severe storms, flooding, bushfires and hailstorms can damage farming operations. The Natural Disaster Loan - Primary Producers scheme provides loans to eligible primary producers (including fishers) in rural and regional NSW who are directly affected by a natural disaster and in urgent and genuine need of assistance. This scheme is not compensatory and is intended to enable primary producers to resume their normal farming and business operations following a natural disaster. Several types of natural disaster transport subsidy are intended to assist with the transport of stock at significant risk in terms of animal welfare.

Natural disaster Recovery Grant provide immediate relief to eligible primary producers, small businesses and non-profit organisations, for clean-up and restoration costs in the aftermath of a declared extreme natural disaster. Detailed eligibility requirements must be met as specified in scheme guidelines.

The Forest Industries Innovation Fund (FIIF) is part of the NSW Government's Forestry Industry Roadmap. The FIIF is designed to help improve the profitability of the NSW timber industry and drive employment growth, drive new investment and innovation to enhance the NSW forest industry and position the NSW forest industry to adjust and capitalize on new opportunities.

The FIIF aims to foster the development and adoption of innovative new technologies, approaches or products to increase sustainable economic growth and support jobs in regional areas to:

• improve the industry's capacity to meet current timber demands;
• support investment in new technology that:

o optimises efficiency and cost effectiveness of wood production and log and residue processing to improve the sector's productivity and financial sustainability; and
o respond to a changing wood supply resource.

• promote a better understanding of the timber resource that is available into the future;
• promote the sustainable management of NSW forests (...)

The Queensland Sustainable Fisheries Strategy 2017-2027 outlines a ten-year reform agenda for the sustainable management of Queensland fisheries. As part of this strategy, vessel tracking capability will be required on all commercial fishing boats by 2020, with units to be installed on net, line and crab commercial fishing boats by 1 January 2019.

To foster the development of a more productive and sustainable rural and regional sector in Queensland by assisting primary producers to develop and improve sustainable enterprises; and to improve energy efficiency by uptake of current and renewable technologies.

The Queensland Government's Uniform Tariff Policy ensures that, where possible, all Queensland non-market electricity customers of a similar type pay a similar price for electricity regardless of where they live.

The Queensland Government's Uniform Tariff Policy ensures that, where possible, all Queensland non-market electricity customers of a similar type pay a similar price for electricity regardless of where they live.

The Business Energy Savers Program provides free energy audits for agricultural customers and large business customers, and co-contributions to fund energy efficiency upgrades.

The W2B Fund provides Grant for Queensland projects that use conventional waste streams or biomass to produce bioenergy, biofuels and high-value bioproducts.
The W2B Fund was established to support the development of waste to biofutures projects in Queensland.

The W2B Fund aligns with the Advance Queensland Biofutures 10-Year Roadmap and Action Plan launched on 5 June 2016, which outlines the strategic direction for the development of a new Queensland industry producing sustainable fuels, bioenergy and high-value bioproducts.

This State-led competitive grant program is recovering water savings generated from water recovery and eligible irrigation infrastructure upgrade projects undertaken by irrigation infrastructure operators and individual irrigators. These projects improve the efficiency and productivity of water use and management, both off and on-farm, helping to secure a sustainable future for irrigation communities.