Frosty, the rate of deaths and fires went DOWN during the scheme.
The workers are supposed to be covered by their existing state WorkSafe type bodies.
There's been plenty of enquiries (six?) already, and they all find the same thing: the pink batts scheme was fine, the men that died and the houses the burned were due to failures in the state bodies and shonky operators that are supposed to be held in check by the state bodies.
The irony of "less red tape" in this context should be obvious too. The way to avoid those deaths was MORE regulation, which goes directly against the Liberal mantra...
The Royal Commission is $50,000,000 worth of political grandstanding against people who are no-longer even members of parliament.
The blokes who died in house roofs were not forced and were being paid, too.
The whole pink batts "scandal" is a huge beat up. Four deaths is a tragedy, for sure, but it is ridiculous to single it out when so many other government decisions cost more lives.
The road I commute to work on, claimed six lives in four separate crashes last year. It has claimed at least two lives every year, in the eight years we've been here. Governments of both brands have promised to fix it, promised to fund it, withdrawn the funding, etc - and people keep dying.
The latest is that we will get another "study", to go with the dozens before it - more money wasted to prove what we already know...
Where's the Royal Commission into that?
