Abbott pushing for Garrett's sacking

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has accused Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of trying to get
off "scot-free" from the botched insulation scheme.

Mr Abbott said Mr Rudd is no policy wonk, as the Prime Minister has claimed.
"What kind of a policy wonk would put a policy in place that leads to four deaths,
93 house fires, 1000 deadly electrified roofs and 48,000 houses in fear that they
might be one of those 1000 deadly electrified roofs?" Mr Abbott told reporters in
Sydney on Saturday.
"And what kind of policy wonk would put in place a home insulation program where of
up to one million insulated homes, 240,000 of them were bodgy jobs?"
Earlier on Saturday, Mr Rudd told reporters in Adelaide that he is "a first class
policy wonk," while admitting he has disappointed people with his achievements so
far.
Mr Abbott said the public are now questioning the competence of this government and
Mr Rudd.
"He's come out to say to the public, look please forgive me. But why should we
forgive him when he's not really sorry?" Mr Abbott asked.
"Because if he was really sorry, he would have sacked Garrett.
"If he was really sorry he wouldn't be desperately trying to get off scot-free after
one of the most appalling administrative disasters in Australian recent history."
The demotion of Mr Garrett was driven by "political panic," Mr Abbott added.
"We've got a minister in Peter Garrett who might as well go off whale-watching
because he doesn't appear to have a real job and yet he's still sitting in the
cabinet and he's still drawing a cabinet minister's salary."