Qld to discuss flood funding with Ludwig

Bickering between federal and state governments is holding up aid for Queensland flood victims. Source: AAP

THE federal minister responsible for Queensland's flood recovery, Joe Ludwig, and the state's Treasurer Tim Nicholls will meet on Tuesday to set up special disaster assistance arrangements.

Each has been blaming the other for holding up a deal for a National Partnership Agreement (NPA).

Senator Ludwig took to Queensland's airwaves on Tuesday to say the agreement would fast-track Queensland's flood recovery but the state government has been slow to respond.

"What I'm doing now, as I did yesterday, is calling on them to strike the National Partnership Agreement - make a decision," he told the ABC.

But Mr Nicholls said he wrote to federal Treasurer Wayne Swan last week, about disaster assistance issues.

Mr Nicholls said the Queensland government agreed on the need to set the terms of an NPA, and that the one that was struck after the state's 2011 natural disasters should be restarted.

"We have been in constant contact through the Queensland Reconstruction Authority, and Emergency Management Australia in terms of what recovery arrangements should be," Mr Nicholls said.

A teleconference is due to be held on Tuesday afternoon between Senator Ludwig and Mr Nicholls, the Queensland Reconstruction Authority, the Flood Recovery Taskforce and Emergency Management Australia.

"Everyone is coming together to get the bones of this agreement together to get things moving," a spokeswoman for Senator Ludwig told AAP.

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