Page 667 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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(a) the importance of home insulation to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, especially the retro-fitting of insulation to existing housing stock;
(b) homeowners who installed insulation from February 2009 were eligible to participate in the Commonwealth’s Home Insulation Program;
(c) the complete and catastrophic failure of the Federal Labor Government to properly implement its Home Insulation Program;
(d) the complete failure by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts to implement safely the Commonwealth’s Home Insulation Program;
(e) the complete failure of the Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts to heed the very clear warnings about the dangers of the Commonwealth’s Home Insulation Program;
(f) the coronial inquiries currently being undertaken in the ACT into house fires which may relate to the poor installation of insulation;
(g) the failure of the Attorney-General to protect adequately from, and warn Canberrans about, the dangers of poorly installed insulation; and
(h) the misleading information provided to the Assembly by the Attorney-General in relation to documents held by the ACT Government in relation to the insulation program; and
(2) calls on the Attorney-General to:
(a) table all documents held by the ACT Government pertaining to the Commonwealth’s Home Insulation Program by close of business today;
(b) immediately implement a public awareness campaign on the dangers of poorly installed insulation and provide a facility for affected homeowners to have their insulation inspected for safety; and
(c) outline to the Assembly, in detail, by close of business 25 February 2010 what steps the Government has taken, and is taking, to protect life and property in the ACT in relation to the Commonwealth’s Home Insulation Program.
I am moving this motion today for a number of reasons. Firstly, I think it is worth debating in this Assembly and it is worth this Assembly expressing its concern at and noting what a monumental policy failure the Rudd federal Labor government has delivered in relation to its home insulation scheme. I think it is not overstating it to say that this is one of the biggest policy failures of a federal government in a generation. And I do not think that is overstating it.
We have a situation where a government went out with a program that was rushed and so ill-thought through that, on the back of it, we have seen linked to it four deaths. We have seen up to 100 house fires potentially linked to it. We see about 1,000 electrified
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