Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Particularly in Western Australia, as Senator Adams mentions, that are still in the grip of drought. I can perhaps ask Senator Cormann about this, because it is no use asking the minister as he just refuses to answer anything and refuses to be accountable, but the West Australian newspaper asked the Prime Minister if those people subject to the drought natural disaster in Western Australia would also be exempt, or was it just those who had suffered from the bushfires? Why are bushfire victims excluded but not people who are in drought?