The aftermath of the North West Queensland floods is still taking a toll on grazing families, as the Isolated Children's Parents' Association fight for government funding to keep children in school.
The Queensland ICPA has processed paperwork to seek state government funding, to keep children in school after North West graziers lost more then 500,000 head of cattle and up to three years income.
ICPA immediate past-president Kim Hughes, said a proposal was developed to increase allowances for students living away from home to help ease the financial pressure on graziers
"We have put forward a proposal for an immediate increase in the Living Away from Home allowance, which is tuition fee for boarding school. We are also supporting ICPA Australia for an increase to the isolated children assistance, which is a federal allowance for boarding fees," Ms Hughes said.
"We enforced that these proposals were extremely urgent and that there needed to be an emergency approach to this situation. We certainly got an undertaking that government understood how urgent this was so we expect something back fairly soon.
"The worst case scenario if we don't get this government assistance is we will see families pull their children out of boarding school, bring them home into long distance education which is not ideal or beneficial."
Queensland ICPA have also had weekly correspondence with the Department of Education and the Education Minister.
"We are touching base with them around what they can do to assist students in flooded areas, definitely at local schools but also distance education. We want to make sure they have the support needed after going through this natural disaster event."
With most graziers still processing cattle carcass disposal, Ms Hughes said a lot of families were only just beginning to feel the impact of the flood.
"The emotional impact of the cattle drowning and bogging took such a toll, graziers are only just starting to get to the financial impacts and what this will mean for their business moving forward," she said.
"I think there are a lot of families who will be relying on some big cash injections from the government to help them through and rebuild their business."
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