NSW Government MPs and staff are calling on Scott Morrison to sign off on new flood funding. 

Reports say Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s trip to Western Australia has led to a delay in approving a new flood disaster assistance package. 

State government officials allegedly worked for days to finalise the details of a new $1.4 billion package - to be jointly paid for by the Commonwealth and NSW governments under Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) - and had expected that the vital funding would be announced mid-week.

However, the PM has been campaigning in WA in recent days (despite not announcing an election date) and his office says he “hopes to finalise the details of the additional support very shortly”.

Meanwhile, close to 100,000 home owners affected by flooding must go without the assistance. 

This all comes after the Federal Government announced it would provide Commonwealth Disaster Relief Payments of $1,000 per person and $400 per child to affected residents in 45 local government areas across NSW and Queensland. These relief payments have been called insultingly low by some locals. 

Meanwhile, the Morrison government is again facing pork-barrelling claims, this time in regard to the allocation of flood assistance funding. 

Extra financial support has been made available for people in Lismore, Richmond Valley and Clarence Valley local government areas (LGAs), all of which are in the Nationals-held seat of Page.

Meanwhile, neighbouring flood-affected LGAs in the Labor-held seat of Richmond cannot access the extra $2,000 per person support.

A Liberal upper house MP is reportedly resigning over the perceived favouritism in the allocation of the money, while the Mayor of Ballina has taken the matter up with Governor-General David Hurley.