House debates

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Questions without Notice

Natural Disasters

2:08 pm

Photo of Michael KeenanMichael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

Just to reaffirm to the parliament: there has been no change in the guidelines for the funding of the Australian disaster recovery payment.

An opposition member interjecting

We have declared for the New South Wales bushfire in exactly the same way as the shadow minister who just interjected did on five separate occasions—in March 2010 in relation to storms in Victoria; in May 2009 in relation to flooding in Queensland. We will continue— (Time expired)

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