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The Victorian Government says inspectors will soon be able to issue immediate fines for falls from height offences. The mechanism sitting behind that sentence is the part worth reading, because it changes how often a penalty can land, not how big it is. On Friday 18...
Suppliers are recovering the cost of this year's fuel shock through levies and freight charges rather than published price rises. The effect on a build is the same. The visibility is not. Concrete suppliers applied fuel surcharges of around $8 per cubic metre in late...
A manager fell two storeys at 23 and lost his job before the ambulance reached him. What he says about the years afterwards lands on the same point as this year’s campaign theme, and on the paperwork residential builders are still missing. Safe Work Australia has set...
A single corporate structure now sits inside the construction insolvency figures that will be quoted for the next twelve months. Taking it out moves the number by fourteen percentage points. On 25 August 2026, 540 construction companies entered voluntary...