A veterans-led disaster response agency would be bolstered if Labor wins next month's election.
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese will on Tuesday promise to increase funding to Disaster Relief Australia to $38.1 million over the next three years, allowing the group to add another 5200 volunteer veterans to its ranks.
The funding will cover the cost of deployment, recruitment, equipment, and training for the organisation, which launched its first disaster relief operation in 2017.
The support will allow the organisation to grow to a total of 6700 veteran volunteers able to provide over 13,600 volunteer days per year.
The organisation was founded on the idea that Australia's veteran community are not victims, but some of the most highly trained civic assets, with skills and experience to be harnessed.
Their volunteers partnered with the ACT government on food distribution as part of COVID relief in the ACT and assisted with devastating aftermath of the Black Summer bushfires.
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Mr Albanese will use the announcement to accuse Scott Morrison of politicising the response to the east coast flood crisis.
"An Albanese Labor government will put Australians first. We will increase support for organisations like the DRA assisting on the ground and never use recovery funding as a political football," he said.
"Over the last three years, Australia has watched Scott Morrison refuse to take responsibility and go missing in action when natural disasters have struck.
"Now, as communities recover from devastating floods, Scott Morrison has politicised flood recovery, caring more about who flood victims voted for than what help they need."