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

As I was saying, Australians in need are quite offended by cheap political pointscoring by those in the privileged positions that we hold. They want us to get on with the job of assisting them in their time of need, including in the immediate response phase in the immediate days when people are actually—thousands of people are homeless here—getting temporary accommodation sorted and making sure they have cash in their accounts to purchase petrol and clothes. That's exactly what the Palaszczuk government partnered with us to do, as the Perrottet state government did with the Commonwealth.

Once we move into the recovery phase, which we are now in—and this is going to last a long time—we are rolling out additional measures, depending on what the state governments decide. So the Palaszczuk government wanted to give, in the category D response, $20,000 to community groups. The Perrottet government— (Time expired)