Is this a source of new funding?, page-2

Like most announcements by Scomo & Bubba Louie it has a big headline number but is spread over a long time frame, meaning it might disappear or be eroded as each budgets passes during that time.

As we know from the $2B Drought Fund & $2B Bushfire Recovery Fund, the procedure for claiming will make successful application near impossible. Indeed, one could say very little of the $2B is ever likely to leave government coffers.

There's something very Scarlet Pimpernelish about $2B promises. For claimants it will be a case of:
“We seek it here, We seek it there
Indeed we seek it everywhere
Is it in heaven or is it in hell?
Those damned Feddies hide it far too well.”