Mark Arbib, the Minister responsible for coordinating the roll-out of the stimulus package, has refused to say when he first became aware of inadequate training and safety issues for workers involved in the ill-fated home insulation program. “When Mark Arbib was promoted by Kevin Rudd in February last year he was portrayed as…
JOHN BARRON: A Senate probe continues into the Rudd Government’s home insulation scheme despite its scrapping last week following the deaths of those four installers and more than 90 house fires associated with the program. The Senate committee has this morning heard a strong defence of the scheme from senior Environment Department officials who…
JOE O’BRIEN: As we’ve been hearing this morning, the Electrical Trades Union has raised concerns about home insulation installers inspecting their own work under the new Government scheme. For more, the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Action, Senator Simon Birmingham, joins us now from Canberra. Senator Birmingham, good morning. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning,…