KEVIN Rudd's rush to save the nation from the Global Financial Crisis directly led to the accidental deaths of three young Queenslanders. Queensland State coroner Michael Barnes yesterday delivered a tragic reminder of the first Rudd government's worst policy mistake - the botched $2.7 billion Home Insulation Program. Mr Barnes blamed a desperate Rudd government, sloppy state agencies and careless bosses for the electrocutions of Reuben Barnes, 16, Mitchell Sweeney, 22, and Matthew Fuller, 25. In NSW Marcus Wilson, 19, died on his first day on the job after suffering heat stroke. Rudd's first stint as prime minister came back to haunt him yesterday in the coroner's scathing assessment of the...
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