get with the program Eloi... 

"Although this is a significant and severe disaster, it was not on the same scale as the disasters of 2011"

that is the comment the I am talking about... 

as people homes were sinking into the mud and being washed away people were not donating to the Premiers Fund... it turns out that people were hit twice last time as they were slugged with a flood levey.. so they sat back and didn't donate much expecting another levy. 

Then Wayne Swan says that this disaster was not as bad and that he was not going to do the same thing.. that we didn't need a levy... 

By the time this was said the main part of the flooding was over and Swannie has told everyone that the disaster was not that bad and the donations pretty much stopped.