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The claim that migrant workers do not know Australian standards is common on sites and in industry conversation. The workforce data does not support it as an explanation, but underneath it sits a real problem that almost nobody is naming correctly. There is a gap in...
Rebecca Askin and Alex Harris on the low cost fixes that decide who stays, and the Queensland rules that now sit behind them. The interventions that keep good people in construction are mostly small, cheap and already inside a builder's control. That was the through...
Builders use family trusts because construction is an industry where the claim can arrive five years after the last invoice, where the bank wants a personal guarantee before it lends, and where the family home is often quietly standing behind the working capital. The...
Fifty four social homes for seniors will be built inside a factory in Wangara and then trucked out to seventeen separate sites across the Western Australian Wheatbelt. The Western Australian Government announced the project on 16 August, backed by more than $27...