Acting premier accuses PM of not caring about flood victims after Morrison says resilience package ‘outside the scope’ of federal responsibility
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has refused a Queensland government request to help fund a $741m natural disaster resilience package in the wake of severe flooding in Brisbane and the state’s south-east.
The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, wrote to Morrison on 19 March asking to go halves in the package – which was designed to pay for retrofitting, house raising or the voluntary buyback of flood-damaged homes.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/scott-morrison-refuses-queenslands-request-to-split-741m-flood-resilience-funding
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