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The federal government says it working closely with the SA government to support South Australians affected by the state's devastating algal bloom. Businesses financially impacted have begun to receive assistance grants under a $28 million joint support package.

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00:00I accept that South Australians think that governments were too slow to respond to this
00:06event and for that I apologise.
00:09What we were doing though in the run up to that was working very closely with the South
00:13Australian Government for weeks.
00:15First of all to try to understand this event because it is unprecedented.
00:19We are in uncharted waters as to how to deal with it and what support is needed.
00:24But when the South Australian Government made its request of us we turned that around within
00:2824 hours and that's why we've provided half of a $28 million funding package to support
00:35the businesses who are being affected, to undertake more science and research, to make the community
00:40aware of the event and what its consequences are and also to clean up the beaches.
00:45So it's good that that money is starting to flow but I accept that people felt that we
00:49were too slow.
00:50I've been down there myself to inspect the beaches and I'll actually be coming down to
00:54Adelaide again this week to see it again and to meet with some of the businesses who
00:59are affected.
01:00So I can assure South Australians that the Federal Government is very much engaged and actually
01:04was for quite a period of time.
01:07Certainly from the Government's point of view we have been taking this matter seriously.
01:11I think there was an expectation that whether conditions would intervene to disperse this
01:16algal bloom at a much earlier stage and that hasn't happened and it is absolutely devastating
01:21for South Australians and I think all Australians to see the kind of damage that we're seeing.
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