Susan McDonald (Queensland, National Party) | Hansard source

It is unfortunate that the state Labor government has been raking in $65 million per year in stamp duties that has not been reinvested in resilience in North Queensland. If the opposition and the Greens were serious about wanting to focus on resilience expenditure in the north, perhaps they could turn their eyes to money that has already been swept out of North Queensland and straight into the coffers to be spent who knows where else—but I suspect it will be in southern Queensland.

The politicisation of disasters in this country is tragic and unfortunate. We just heard commentary from Senator McAllister on the disaster fund, which Labor voted for when it was introduced to the parliament recently. But now the opposition want to pretend that they not only—

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