Mr Turnbull met two emotional CFA volunteers who lost their family homes.

Watching on will be thousands of CFA volunteers in their unmistakable bright yellow uniforms.

Turnbull has been filmed again and again standing with CFA volunteers, calling this dispute an "extraordinary assault on fundamental Australian values".

More than 200 evacuees, along with 66 CFA volunteers, were be brought ashore on landing craft to be reunited with friends and family.