Max Gordon-Hall lost his three-bedroom home in bushfires in early January but hasn't been able to even start rebuilding because of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Andrew Colvin, the head of the Federal Government's National Bushfire Recovery Agency, said that even without coronavirus, getting help to all the people who needed it after the fires was always going to be a mammoth task."There's over 3,000 residences that have been destroyed in these fires. Plus a variety of other commercial premises and other buildings in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
"I think we're going to start to see a real upturn in the number of properties [that] have been cleaned up." Mr Colvin conceded that most of the criticism at the time was fair and warranted but that government money was now flowing much faster. "Of course, I've got a two-year horizon, I need to start planning for what the national recovery looks like. So, we need to make sure that we've got funds available to continue this recovery much beyond the next few weeks and months."
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