Labor Waste

The Federal Government has wasted $200 million of taxpayers money on its poorly implemented ‘pink batts cash splash’ offering a rebate to suppliers hundreds of dollars higher than the cost of insulation. When Minister Peter Garrett finally realised what was happening he was forced into an embarrassing back-down, putting the rebate back to $1200. Just [...]

The Government is facing another inquiry into alleged “rorting and waste” of its home insulation program. In a letter to the Auditor General Coalition Environment Spokesman Greg Hunt says MP’s offices and media outlets around the country are receiving a stream of complaints about the program. Examples include insulation installers almost always quoting just under [...]

Millions of stimulus dollars designed to protect Australian workers and industry from the global recession are being spent on overseas supplied home insulation batts. Despite ramping up their production plants to 24/7 operations, Australia’s biggest manufacturers of insulation batts are still having to go offshore to meet up to 30% of their total orders. The [...]