The Pollytics of insulation

You gotta love Possum Comitatus at Pollytics.com – he has a way of finding the truth in the numbers that few others are capable of.

Today he has what has to be the definitive blogs about the “insulation affair’ that The Australian and the rest of Rupert (the Monk’s lunch partner) Murdoch’s slag-sheets have been beating-up for the last couple of weeks.

Firstly, he demolishes much of the reportage to date:

Risk and Incompetence in an Insulated Media

And then he shows statistically how the Garrett insulation scheme in all probability actually reduced the rate of installation caused fires:

Did the insulation program actually reduce fire risk?

Read them – you won’t be sorry