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Permits

Photography permits in Queensland.

This page covers one authority: Queensland Parks. The first line of the card says when you need a permit.

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Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service

National parks, conservation parks, recreation areas and state forests across Queensland.

Everyone lodges a notification. Bigger shoots need a permit as well.

Permit name
Filming and photography notification, plus a commercial activity permit for larger shoots
Cost
From 1 July 2026: a shoot of 11 or more people with no structures pays a $434.60 application fee and $217.90 for each day. Shoots using structures pay $217.90 to $4,356.00 to apply, on a scale by crew size, with a daily fee at the same rate. A small shoot that only needs the notification does not pay these fees.
Lead time
The notification must be lodged at least 14 days before you enter the park.
Public liability
$20 million public liability for permit holders

If it is just you Ten or fewer people with no structures needs only the free notification, not a permit. That is most portrait and wedding work.

What to have ready

  • The online notification lodged 14 days ahead, whatever the size of your shoot
  • A commercial activity permit as well if you have 11 or more people, or you are using structures

Also check

  • This is where photographers most often get caught out. Everyone lodges the notification, even when no permit is needed, so a two-person portrait shoot still lodges it.
  • Contact is parkaccess@qld.gov.au or (07) 3199 7514.
Apply on their site

Figures checked on 12 September 2026 against their website. Authorities change fees without notice, so check before you apply.

Use this as a starting point, not as advice. We took each figure from the authority's website on the date shown. Fees and rules change without notice, and your shoot may have details this page doesn't cover. Confirm with the authority before you book the job.

Council land

Most photographers forget about council land.

The fee is often nothing. Councils usually charge by crew size, and a portrait session with one photographer normally falls in the smallest tier, which is often free. You still need the approval, even when it costs nothing.

  • Approval is needed once you are being paid, even for a two-person shoot.
  • Fees scale by crew size, and the smallest tier is often free.
  • Public liability cover of $10 million is the common ask, and some councils want to be named on the certificate.
  • Five business days is a common minimum, and many councils decline late applications.
  • Private property is up to the owner, not the council.

Know a Queensland authority we’ve missed, or seen a fee change? Tell us and we’ll check their page and update the card.

Permit sorted? Tellisto handles the rest.

Tellisto handles everything after it: the booking, the GST invoice, the gallery under your own name. Free plan, zero commission.

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