SMH reported today that a home owner "has been ordered to pay $70,000 in compensation to the widow of an electrician who died after working in his roof".

Allan Harley had been working on a terrace in Darlington in October 2004 when he was electrocuted after coming into contact with an exposed live wire from a previously used solar hot water heater.

How many of the deaths or accidents that occurred during the Insulation program also had these sort of circumstances?

Professor Peter Cane from the Australian National University said the judgment had followed the general legal principal that property owners bear certain responsibilities for people's safety while on their premises. However he said many people would have ''no idea that they would be responsible in those circumstances''.

Interesting in light of the hounding of Peter Garrett (who I still think needed to go, not because he was responsible for the accidents, but because he mismanaged the fallout).