Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

As part of the Liberal and National government commitment, the $280 million Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants Program builds on measures implemented by the government over the past 18 months to support disaster response relief and recovery in bushfire affected areas. Projects can be funded between $20,000 and $10 million for community organisations, local councils and businesses. This program will help bushfire impacted communities build back better and funds a lot of those recovery and resilience projects. Amounts identified for each eligible local government area in the grant guidelines are a guide. They are not fixed or capped. I want to make that very, very clear: the size of the local government area is not a limiting factor under this program. A committee chaired by the coordinator-general of the NRRA will undertake a detailed assessment of the applications based on and merit. It will then come to me as the final decision-maker.