A detailed report on the insulation saga shows what went wrong — and, incidentally, just how badly wrong the media was in savaging Peter Garrett.
Foil insulation
Foil insulation: a lot less scandalous than you may have heard
The media narrative that the Government’s foil insulation scheme was a total disaster is a massive oversimplification — one which ignores history and mathematics, says Rodney Tiffen.
Rudd’s political insulation program
The Government’s strategy for fixing its disastrous Home Insulation Program is to suck the oxygen out of the story so it can get its own agenda and attacks on Tony Abbott back into the spotlight, reports Bernard Keane.
Peter Garrett and the perpetual present of politics
Peter Garrett either should or shouldn’t have attended a meeting this week, and should or should roll out solar panels fast, and is or isn’t guilty of industrial manslaughter. Welcome to political journalism.
Fake Steve Fielding: The devil and Peter Garrett
“You can take the devil music out of the boy but you can’t take the boy out of the devil music” says Fake Steve Fielding: Peter Garrett brought rock and roll into Parliament — and now four tradesmen are dead.
Garrett’s insulation scandal gets even hotter
Already under fire over his foil insulation scheme, the scrutiny on Peter Garrett is set to reach boiling point, with new revelations today of dodgy solar panels, shonky businessmen and fresh attacks from industry. Better slip, slop, slap, Pete.
Porridge time for Garrett
Only one thing is certain from the foil insulation debacle, says Bernard Keane: Peter Garrett must go to prison. The mere act of providing funding for a voluntary program of household insulation surely makes him guilty of manslaughter.
A QLD electrician tells it like it is
As a bloke who is climbing into another ceiling tomorrow and sending people out to do the same on his behalf, Chris Lehmann says Garrett needs to instigate a foil insulation policy removal immediately.
Garrett’s not the only one with bloody hands
The crazy logic of the pursuit of Peter Garrett is that he must take responsibility for the actions of everyone who has received Government funding, no matter how irresponsible they are in their own actions.
Is Garrett a goner?
The scrutiny continues to pile up on Peter Garrett over the foil insulation debacle, with a growing chorus of voices calling for him to be fired or step down. A look at how the pundits saw it today.
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