Insulation deaths

[Howard Stinks]

So if we are to take Sprint's logic every Minister of Health and Transport are directly responsible for the deaths that happened on the hospitals and and on the roads!Why are they any different Sprint? No political gain?
So Abbott is directly responsible for all hospital deaths that happened wile he was the health minister?
It is a disgrace that the opposition are using the deaths of four young people for a political gain. Appalling!

Right Sprinty?

[Monkey Magic]

garrett's responsibility has now been reduced; a demotion of sorts. will the left now concede that labor did the wrong thing? rudd has.

[sprintcyclist]

monkey - i doubt they will.
certainly on monks leftard sheltered site garrett is still the champion.


the left just don't get it.
If you win, it's good. If you lose it's bad.
garrett lost.

[Monkey Magic]

are the left on this board so stupid as to have blind faith in their party of choice?

[sprintcyclist]

that seems the case with leftys everywhere

I'm a righty, and howard made some poor decisions I believe
I vote for whoever makes the correct decision the most.

Keating was the best PM i have known. that he was a labour is immaterial to me

[Monkey Magic]

i agree about keating. his cut and thrust during question time is the stuff of legends.

[Howard Stinks]

So if we are to take Sprint's logic every Minister of Health and Transport are directly responsible for the deaths that happened on the hospitals and and on the roads!Why are they any different Sprint? No political gain?
So Abbott is directly responsible for all hospital deaths that happened wile he was the health minister?
It is a disgrace that the opposition are using the deaths of four young people for a political gain. Appalling!

Right Sprinty?

Sprint what happened the exersise bike fell apart? No reply?

[Howard Stinks]

Officials in Garrett's department told a Senate committee hearing that the pre-program rate of installations was 65,000 to 70,000 a year, with 80 to 85 insulation-related fires a year. Roughly 30 per cent were linked to new installations, on industry estimates. The program insulated more than 1.1 million homes. If 94 fires have been linked to this, the implication is that the fire risk was roughly four times lower than before, even as the number of installations rose 15-fold.

As for the four deaths of installers, one of them through heat exhaustion and another using foil insulation that Garrett had barred from the program months earlier, they are subject to coronial inquiries. The fact is, however, that the program introduced the first national training program for installers. Remember, this is a field in which foolhardy householders have a long DIY tradition and the insulation industry had been largely unregulated. Where was the concern about safety then?

If the program has proved anything, it is that Australia abounds with shonky businesses, ''she'll be right'' tradesmen, hypocritical politicians who habitually sacrifice workplace safety on the altar of business-friendly policy, and careless, pack-hunting journalists. That, I'm afraid, is not much of a revelation at all.

John Watson is an Age senior writer
Link>>>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/ ... -pivv.html

[Howard Stinks]

Tony Abbott will be hung up to dry, the same as John Howard at the last election,voters don't take kindly to Mad Monks.
He only cares about industrial accidents when it suits his political agenda,were was the Mad Monk when in the past workers never made it back to their families?
Did he hold responsible any of his fellow ministers, at the time he was health minister? Have a guess Sprint! NO business as usual!

Let's hear Tony Abbott talk about any other industrial accident.
Let's hear Tony Abbott talk about truckies who die on the road because they are pushed to speed by their bosses.
Let's hear Tony Abbott talk about the young and old who die on the roads every year.
Don't they count for anything Tony?
To be expected from a minister who vilified Bernie Banton.