Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience) | Hansard source

As we know, disaster recovery funding arrangements that were set up in 2018 are jointly funded by Commonwealth and state governments. On the very day that these flooding events were occurring in New South Wales, these were activated by the New South Wales government, as is the appropriate governance arrangement for the disaster recovery funding arrangements. In the first days of the flood event we were rolling out temporary accommodation assistance with the New South Wales government. We were funding it; they are responsible for rolling it out. We were also assisting them with local council grants and the like for that immediate response. Now we've shifted to recovery— (Time expired)