The PM defends his office's use of taxpayer money to produce and distribute a social media message about Defence deployments to assist during the bushfire crisis.
Scott Morrison has had some perplexing failures of political and policy judgement in recent weeks, writes Laura Tingle.
"It took six weeks for the Government to agree to a national response and six minutes for them to put out an authorised Liberal Party ad which can only be seen as being for party-political purposes at a time where it requires national leadership and it requires a non-partisan and non-political approach," he said.
"Yesterday was one of the worst days in what has been an unprecedented, horrendous fire season," Mr Albanese said. It will be modelled on an organisation set up to coordinate the response to the North Queensland floods and will report to Emergency Management Minister David Littleproud, working closely with the states and territories to rebuild critical infrastructure.
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