Burnt Infrastructure Still Unrepaired Post-2019 Bushfires: Opposition

National and Liberal ministers ask where is the funding for infrastructure damaged by weather event, why roads are being neglected.

Smoke billows during bushfires in Bairnsdale, a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, Dec. 30, 2019. Glen Morey/Social Media/via Reuters

Victoria’s National member for Gippsland East, Tim Bull, has put the spotlight on the state government’s recovery efforts after the 2019 bushfires.

The 2019–20 bushfires saw five lives lost, more than 1.5 million hectares of land burned, 2,092 people evacuated, 405 homes and 653 non-residential buildings destroyed, and 5,827 livestock deaths.