Well the then 'responsible' minister Garratt, had to cancel the scheme early because of a death, the flood of dodgy unlicensed insulation installers, about 40 house fires and then the cost of sending officers out to inspect and in many cases correct shoddy work in hundreds of houses.
It was the Australian Newspaper (the free press) that exposed all of this whilst Fairfax and the ABC were asleep at the wheel, still at that stage, besotted with Kevvie and Julia.