The PM has rejected Queensland's request to jointly fund a 740-million-dollar flood package to retrofit or buy back 'at risk' homes...claiming it's not a commonwealth responsibility.

Last month the State Government publicly appealed to the Prime Minister for the Commonwealth to pay for half the scheme. In a reply letter sent yesterday ... Mr Morrison says the federal government has already committed almost 1-billion-dollars for Queensland... and agreed to split a 30-million-dollar clean up package