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New text messages from former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian have emerged, building on former leaks and labelling Scott Morrison obsessed with petty political pointscoring."

News.com.au has reported it has received a second screenshot of text messages between Berejiklian and a mystery cabinet minister, in which she says she is so, so disappointed," in Morrison:

Thx. I'm just so so disappointed. Lives are at stake today and he is just obsessed with petty political pointscoring. So disappointed and gutted.

We've seen unprecedented collaboration with both the local government and state government, with support being delivered in record time ... we were able to get $3bn of recovery support out, in just over the first three weeks - that's a record number of people supported.

The PM has written to Premier Perrottet to say we're very happy to share in costs of that program ... but the PM has made clear that it's for the one-in-500-year flood event.