Foxy, "What is currently happening is purely to benefit the Coalition"

Casting aspersions on the independence and competence of the Royal Commission is not a good look.

What about you, Belly and 579 packing all of your complaints into personal submissions and lodging same with the Royal Commission?

That is the decent thing to do.

Here is the address and you could let us all know how you did,

Office of the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program
PO Box 7365
Canberra BC ACT 2610

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/tony-abbott-running-against-himself-as-marathon-turns-into-a-sprint-20131226-2zxxg.html
Thank you Foxy, I read every link you and most put here.
I am rather amused some, or is it just one, continue to plant the blame for Abbott,s fall from grace on me!
This link adds to my truly held belief the man is acting irrationally, seems voters agree.
In looking at politics we at the least should ask why.
I have expressed a view,that the Royal Commission is nothing but a propaganda machine on steroids.
Shall we agree at its end? will the out comes tell us something we do not already know?

I think i get the picture, The federal govt; was guilty of thinking of the scheme to insulate houses. As far as health and safety goes the laws have been in place for years. OTB says the family's of the deaths need closure. After a dozen or so investigations so far he is of the opinion they do not have closure. May it's the constant reopening of multiple investigations that do not allow closure.
As question 1-2-3 all relate to the govt; of the day, they are guilty of coming up with the idea. That is what govt's do. as Abbott is yet to find out he is the govt; and do something beside unsettling our neighbors and biggest trading partners.
The first 100 days were a disaster,business confidence slumped, unemployment is guaranteed, 40 billion added to our deficit, and what have we got to show for it. If Abbott lasts another six months the people are going to fume and spit fire. We are probably the closest of any time so far of having an assassination on our hands

Dear Belly and 579,

A political commentator lists some of
the shambles of the current government's
100 days in office, they include:

"The Speaker's bias, the childcare snatchback,
the Gonski betrayal, the gay marriage shaming,
the crumbling of Qantas, the Holden wasteland,
the boat people cooking crayfishundetected on
an Australian beach, the fury of China, the
stealing of taxpayer millions to fly to faraway
weddings, the turned around boat whose bow broke,
the broadband blow out, the fresh new splintering
of Tasmanian forests, the 18 policy backflips
of Christopher Pyne, each would have been a
government shaking scandal... but for the Murdoch
press." Now of course the pink batts provides the
much needed diversion - to protect themselves and
retrieve themselves in the year ahead.

Even Scott Morrison has decided to cancel his weekly
media meetings. "Morrison retreats from media on
asylum seekers," are the headlines in The Saturday Age,
Dec. 28, 2013. It seems he has stopped holding weekly
press conferences on asylum seeker boat arrivals, instead
issuing a written statement with no opportunity to ask
questions.

So much for transparency and accountability in government.
No wonder diversions are necessary for this government.

Belly, "I have expressed a view,that the Royal Commission is nothing but a propaganda machine on steroids"

If you, Foxy and 579 have any evidence to support your noxious allegations that reflect on the competence and independence of the commissioner and his staff you should put it forward.

Here they are. What exactly do any of you have to say about them?

<The Commissioner
Ian Hanger AM QC

Mr Ian Hanger AM QC was admitted to practice as a Barrister in 1968, and is highly regarded as a leading commercial dispute resolution practitioner. Mr Hanger is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland and an Honorary Professor of Law at Bond University. Mr Hanger was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1984 and a Member of the Order of Australia in 2007. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and of Laws from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology.
Counsel Assisting
Keith Wilson QC

Keith Wilson commenced practice at the Private bar Bar in 1986. Mr Wilson served as a Federal Magistrate between September 2006 and February 2010, at which point he returned to his practice at the Private Bar. Mr Wilson was appointed as a Senior Counsel in 2002, and re-appointed as a Queens’ Counsel in 2013.

He has a Bachelor of Commerce and of Laws from the University of Queensland, and a Master of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology.
Jonathan Horton

Jonathan Horton has been in practice at the private Bar since 2002. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University, a Bachelor of Laws from University of Sydney and a Master of Laws from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

Mr Horton has previously acted as Counsel Assisting for a number of significant inquiries, including the Review of the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Act and related matters in 2012>
http://www.homeinsulationroyalcommission.gov.au/Pages/AbouttheRoyalCommission.aspx

Candide,

If you believe there are buckets of dough to be made from rental property what is preventing you from getting a bit of the action?

I have been to meetings of (residential) property owners. I must tell you that for people who are supposedly wealthy as you obviously believe, they sure dress as though they buy at St Vinnies, and the cars outside were older versions of very common, cheap cars. All had heaps of troubles to discuss too, which explained their haunted looks.

Government can't manage public housing. It was always too complex, too expensive and damned unrewarding in every way. So government has unceremoniously shoved its welfare recipients onto the private owners. Tenancy regulations are drafted to protect the most incompetent and wilful tenants and rental authorities and tribunals know how to protect their large and growing hierarchies.

Anyhow, the mums and dads who provide the lion's share of rental housing would be lucky to be earning a few percent gross for their sacrifice, worries and loss of their own quality of life.

Candice, you and others like you should be worried that these mums and dads investors do not realise how futile their property 'investing' really is, forever sacrificing and laboring themselves in the hope of a pay-off one day, but taxed once again of course.

From the facts, not the blurb of the white shoe brigade and envious superficial assessment from people such as yourself, these property investors live on a razor edge and it would be easy for them to collapse financially from a myriad of serious events. Murphy's Law, with a lot of help from 'those' tenants (who are in an abundance).

As well, it would be easy for the ham-fisted actions of government to provoke a lasting run against investment in rentals. Then again, you might think that a downhill run is a good thing too. But once again, you don't consider the negative consequences.

I wouldn't advise any family member to invest in rental property. You should 'invest' in it though for the learning experience.