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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Bushfire Recovery Support

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (15:03): My question is to the Minister for Human Services regarding bushfire recovery. Can the minister please update the council on how the Marshall Liberal government has supported our resilient South Australians affected by the devastating Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island bushfires?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:03): I thank the honourable member for her question. Indeed, South Australian individuals and businesses, and other supporters from around Australia and the globe—indeed, even Elton John supported South Australia through the State Emergency Relief Fund. While it is two years on since we had the devastating bushfires in the Adelaide Hills and on Kangaroo Island, it is good to know that people are rebuilding their lives in these important regions with the support of all of us.

In particular, we have had more than 1,000 families, individuals and businesses who shared in over $9 million which was donated and some $2 million in funding from the government. The Webb family of Kenton Valley have been a family who have been quite open and been prepared to speak publicly about their situation. They received more than $30,000 in government grants, which obviously has been particularly helpful.

One of the things that they have relayed has been that because there were various rounds of grants, where they were in the early days where they needed to replace school uniforms and the like, they have now been able to put subsequent grant funding towards other things that they may have realised they needed, such as landscaping for the rebuild for their homes.

We have provided close to $3 million to 195 households whose residences were destroyed, nearly $3 million to 937 households to repair property infrastructure, nearly $2 million to support loss of income to 509 businesses and $1.12 million to support community projects. At this time, it is very important that we continue to support these communities. We thank everybody who made a donation to this very important fund and look forward to those communities continuing to recover.

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