Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Special Minister of State and Scrutiny of Government Waste) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the document.

I want to take note of this annual report of the former Department of Climate Change and refer to the Labor Party’s Home Insulation Program, which is an example of systemic policy failure with the deepest human consequences. Minister Combet has now upped the government figures to 105 house fires and potentially 1,500 deadly electrified roofs. Labor has no plan to examine all of the one million houses insulated and no plan to fix the 240,000 houses that have been made unsafe or have dodgy insulation.

But the consequences are not just severe for homeowners. I want to turn to a report in the Colac Herald from yesterday, I think it was. It was an article by Mr Brett Worthington. This is the local Colac paper, and the member down there, of course, is Mr Darren Cheeseman, one of the laziest members of parliament that I have ever seen in nearly 17 years.