This should be interesting
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/19831322/govt-pushes-on-with-pink-batts-inquiry/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/19831322/govt-pushes-on-with-pink-batts-inquiry/
Royal Commission into Labor's home insulation program
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Wasteful political witch hunt. There is absolutely no need for such an inquiry.
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Of course it is. Will be enough to get Rotty excited though.
Very wise of KRudd to quit the parliament before this inquiry takes place.
Fortunately it is a very rare occurrence for a Labor government to throw out occupational health and safety protections, to encourage fly by nighters to take over industries and then not ensure that proper training is put in place, particularly for young employees.
Most important task for inquiry.
Fortunately it is a very rare occurrence for a Labor government to throw out occupational health and safety protections, to encourage fly by nighters to take over industries and then not ensure that proper training is put in place, particularly for young employees.
Most important task for inquiry.
I wonder if this will include all working sites/industries or whether it will only apply to the home insulation industry.
Am not sure this extraordinary situation has ever arisen elsewhere?
As you would know the union movement would have been constrained from acting when their warnings were disregarded because they were dealing with a Labor govt and big hero Rudd.
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Of all the things to waste taxpayer money on... I wonder if the findings will be nicely timed for the end of this electoral cycle?
I think there will be many in the Labor movement - both unions and Party and leadership especially Shorten - who will be very keen on this inquiry and nailing Rudd for it. Number one in queue Peter Garrett.
If nothing else it should ensure that the episode is never ever repeated.
If nothing else it should ensure that the episode is never ever repeated.
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The only thing that it will be is a tremendously expensive political stunt.
If they really wanted to nail Rudd on something worthwhile, they would hold a Royal Commission into bank practices post GFC and the CBA take over of Bankwest.
I thought it was just going to be a judicial review, not a full blown Royal Commission. Has this changed, or is this just over-enthusiastic reporting?
Is that reason enough for a Royal Commission?
And the Libs complain about the debt..how much is this witch-hunt and the re-establishment of the ABCC gonna bloody cost us....
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Will there be a royal commission every time contractors * up?
What an absolute waste of time and money.
There has been 8 inquires into this issue already and the Government has adopted and implemented all of the recommendations.
If the conservatives didn't just rely on wikipedia for their information they would know about these:
http://www.anao.gov.au/Publications/Audit-Reports/2010-2011/Home-Insulation-Program
http://www.ret.gov.au/media-archive/Pages/hip-coronial-inquest.aspx
There has been 8 inquires into this issue already and the Government has adopted and implemented all of the recommendations.
If the conservatives didn't just rely on wikipedia for their information they would know about these:
http://www.anao.gov.au/Publications/Audit-Reports/2010-2011/Home-Insulation-Program
http://www.ret.gov.au/media-archive/Pages/hip-coronial-inquest.aspx
I bet you a pink batt that the will add the cost of the inquiry to the alleged waste associated with the original scheme
We didn't get a commission into the Iraq WMD scandal did we ? That's rigtht it was a coalition govt that did it. Whereas in the uk it was a labor govt that did it
We didn't get a commission into the Iraq WMD scandal did we ? That's rigtht it was a coalition govt that did it. Whereas in the uk it was a labor govt that did it
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Report by June 30, 2014...
Clearly a politically motivated witchhunt aimed and timed so that if they need a DD election after the new senate sits on July 1st, they've got plenty to use against the ALP.
Yeah, the ALP stuffed up that program, and investigation to avoid such mistakes happening again should a government see the need for a quick stimulus package does make a degree of sense, but a Royal Commission is clearly overkill. An internal departmental inquiry (with a few leaks, because it's politics after all) would have done the job more than adequately.
Clearly a politically motivated witchhunt aimed and timed so that if they need a DD election after the new senate sits on July 1st, they've got plenty to use against the ALP.
Yeah, the ALP stuffed up that program, and investigation to avoid such mistakes happening again should a government see the need for a quick stimulus package does make a degree of sense, but a Royal Commission is clearly overkill. An internal departmental inquiry (with a few leaks, because it's politics after all) would have done the job more than adequately.
The ALP will be absolutely gleeful about this because rather than the Coalition being able to beat them over the head with it they will have royal commision findings of it being a case of contractor negligence operating under state-level regulation producing an incident rate at or below prior industry averages.
Problem with that is
If the ashby appeal gets dismissed , the libs/lnp were found by a court to be involved in an political plot against the former coalition member and speaker of the house and government.
Labor would be the only party what has a legit case to call an royal commission(into the libs/lnp)
that would be a good dd election bonus for labor
Be interesting if the significant jump in workplace deaths during the previous existence of the ABCC ever gets the same attention.
If there's a clear political advantage, probably yes. Sad, but most pollies a bottom dwellers.
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Like I said, political stunt and a money waster. Expect findings in time for the next election.
