What concerns me is that there's always an excuse to bleat shortage of fundds but again as per usual, they're already setting up inquiries. As per usual these inquiries will cost a small fortune & achieve nothing. Why an inquiry ? Just rough up the useless bureaucrats & replace them. A lot cheaper than inquiries. Put private enterprise in charge of flood control & there won't be so much flood damage in future. Keep bureaucracy away from anything to do with practicality & reality & most problems will be a thing of the past.

Indi, a good analogy of governments (local and state) is your local bowls club.

The successful clubs have paid managers and the committee simply control the games and run the cook raffles.

It is when the committee thinks they can run the business as well, that most fail and go into receivership.

Like bureaucrats, many committees are made up of failed business people, or others that just didn't quite make it.

The government has got it well covered. The reconstruction will be covered by the insurance companies, the already well publicised stated government cost cuts, the 1 year levy that most people won't pay, and if you earn $50,000 you pay $1 a week for a mere 52 weeks, and the Qld. government's disaster relief fund.

Don't forget the Libs have a long history of introducing levies for funding purposes, so they have no moral high ground to stand on regarding the levy issue.

No matter what the federal government did, or didn't do, some people would whinge about it and some people would try to use the disasters for political gain. Some people are like that. If the current government was in opposition they would do exactly the same whinging and politicing that the Libs are currently doing on the issue.

Politics stink.

Frankly i am very angry about the proposed flood levy.

The levy is for fixing up government assetts, that is clear. If the government had not blown the available funds on stupid schemes, like home insulation, school halls and simply giving money away, they would have the money without requiring us to fund their financial mismanagement.

Nearly half of the houses that were flooded, in Brisbane, were built after the 1974 floods, and we should be asking how come?

What about making the councilors of Brisbane City Council pay? They allowed the development and house construction in flood prone areas.

How could they allow such stupidity? Was there corruption? The developers made a mint out of the sale of building blocks and it has been alleged that tthe Council hid a report that the houses would flood.

Far too many get away without being responsible for their actions.

Now the taxpayer is again to pay for government incompedence!

I'm not against a levy at all. I'm against much of the levy going to consultants & bureaucrats who's inaction & incompetence contributed to damage in the first place.

Individual, how do you expect the levy, the Qld. disaster relief fund, and the government cost cuts to be administered?

Should the money just administer itself, and grow little money legs and walk all by itself to the disaster victims?

Be realistic, in any disaster funding there must be administration costs. The money can't do it all by itself.