Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald has slammed an announcement by Federal and State Labor of a $40 million household cyclone resilience grants package for North Queensland, saying the State Government should increase the funding to the full amount North Queenslanders pay in Stamp Duty on insurance policies and relax income eligibility rules to give genuine relief from soaring insurance costs.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has called on Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones to reject an ACCC report into Northern insurance relating to the $10 billion Reinsurance Pool because it only consulted insurers and not customers.

Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, has urged people to provide details of their skyrocketing insurance premiums to the ACCC’s Insurance Monitoring branch.