Rudd points finger at public service

Former PM shifts ­responsibility for his government's pink batts scheme.

Kevin Rudd has shifted ­responsibility for his government’s disastrous batts scheme to the federal public service, ­revealing bureaucrats devised the flawed program and its rushed deadline.

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