VICTORIAN Premier Daniel Andrews was in Shepparton on Tuesday, October 18, he visited Shepparton’s Incident Control Centre (ICC) again after his visit last Friday before the peak of the flood hit.
Mr Andrews said emergency services and the government would stand “shoulder-to-shoulder” with everyone impacted by flooding.
“There’ll be a big clean-up job and then there’ll obviously be support for individual families and businesses that have been affected,” he said.
“It will be a record flood event, both for the number of communities affected and the number of houses affected as well.
“But the most important thing is we can clean up, we just have to make sure people are safe.”
Mr Andrews spoke of how emergency services have the ability to help in these circumstances.
“There are a number of legal instruments which transfers powers to the leader of emergency services, and everyone is working well together. We are all focussed on one thing, and once imminent danger has passed, clean up, recovery and rebuilding is our focus. Thank you to SES staff, who are focused on protecting their community,” said Mr Andrews.
Mr Andrews assured our region everything will be done to help with recovery, due to our significant contribution to our country’s food chain. “This is the food bowl of our nation, everything is being done and will be done to help the region recover,” he said.
