A path of destruction and its political aftermath in Australia's Cobargo

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COBARGO, AUSTRALIA - On a recent sunny day in the hills behind Cobargo, a village in southeastern Australia, local volunteers were hard at work installing a bathroom for the Jee family, which had wai

ted more than two years for a proper one.

"It's a perfect storm of factors," said Ms Kristy McBain, the area's member of Parliament. Among them is a recovery effort complicated by overlapping involvement from national, state and local governments. With the ruling conservative Liberal-National coalition expected to lose urban seats in other states, the conventional wisdom is that the current government's route to reelection goes through the country - in this case, bush-fire-ravaged country.

While those roadblocks have been largely overcome, the Jees are still awaiting final approval to start construction. They are unlikely to have a new home built by the fourth anniversary of the bush fires."It's been a nightmare," Tammie Jee said. There are signs that such anger at the disaster response could hurt the Liberal-National government's chances of regaining Gilmore and Eden-Monaro. A poster depicting Mr Morrison in a Hawaiian shirt and floral headpiece was prominent recently on Cobargo's main street, pointedly reminding voters that the prime minister vacationed in Hawaii while the fires were raging.

 

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