Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) | Hansard source

I listened to her and I took her advice. The Premier of New South Wales was happy to do that. The state of emergency declaration does not trigger payments. It does not trigger ADF involvement. It does not trigger either of those things. Those two things are the things we did immediately. The state of emergency assists with the recovery works and the facilitation of the processing of recovery efforts after the flood event. If the Leader of the Opposition spent more time understanding responses rather than politicising them, as he has done through fire, through flood, through pandemic, through cyclone—this Leader of the Labor Party has politicised every national disaster to his shame.

See this speech in context