Bushfire crisis 'not about one individual', says PM after angry criticism | ABC News

The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has brushed off verbal assaults directed at him on one of his tours of burnt-out townships.

He copped a barrage of abuse in Cobargo, behaviour that the local Liberal MP endorsed as something the Prime Minister 'deserved'.

National Affairs correspondent Greg Jennett reports.

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