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

As I said in my previous answer, we've been able to get, at a Commonwealth level, non-financial aid, being the ADF boots on the ground and the Taipan helicopters rescuing people off roofs in Lismore itself within hours, because we did preposture ahead of that request from the New South Wales government. We have, even now, 4,000 ADF on the ground. So non-financial support rolled out in record time, and financial support rolled out in record time through Services Australia and our own disaster payment and disaster recovery allowance.

It might not suit the Labor Party's narrative; they want to politicise natural disasters. But what Australians in need want to hear from their political leaders—