Senior Labor Ministers don’t even know the name of their own unravelling ‘cleaner car’ scheme, or when it will start or end.

In a humiliating display in Question Time today, Minister Peter Garrett – representing the Industry Minister – couldn’t give the House of Representatives any information about his party’s so-called Cleaner Car Rebate.

Reports in recent days have consistently revealed that the Government is close to breaking another election promise, and ditching its absurd $429 million commitment.

It was always a bottom-of-the-barrel stunt to disguise Labor’s vacuum on climate change policy.

There have been widespread calls to abolish this dog of a scheme that will:

distort the car market and broader economy;

artificially inflate the value of used cars;

favour cheap imports over locally-made cars;

be ripe for widespread rorting and abuse; and

savagely overprice carbon abatement, with one tonne of reduced carbon priced at $429 compared with a price of less than $30 under the Government’s own shelved ETS.

It was another Garrett faux pas so bad that he didn’t even know the official program name, referring to it as ‘Cash for Clunkers’.