Landholder legal responsibility for bushfire mitigation in Queensland

This report examines Queensland’s legal framework for bushfire mitigation and situates it within the national regulatory landscape. It seeks to determine the extent to which occupiers of land in Queensland have a legal responsibility to manage bushfire hazards on their property. This includes analysing whether Queensland law imposes any positive or ongoing obligations on landholders to mitigate bushfire risk and how those duties, if any, are created, structured and enforced across different land tenures.