The Land and Environment Court accepted the structure was moveable, registrable and not a building. The order to stop living in it stood anyway. A caravan is not a building. The Land and Environment Court confirmed that on 9 September, and the finding was enough to...
After more than three years in the courts, the Bendel case has produced a final answer. The ATO's long-held position on trust distributions has been rejected. Here is what it actually means for construction business owners. A Tax Fight That Ran All the Way to the Top...
A Federal Court ruling on the Alucobond PE cladding class action has cleared the manufacturer of liability. The decision has real implications for how Australian builders, developers and product users think about responsibility in the supply chain. On 27 March 2026,...
In construction, reputation has always mattered.Referrals, repeat clients and trust built over years can be undone quickly when allegations take hold. What has changed is not the importance of reputation, but the speed and scale at which it can now be damaged. Once,...
Online reviews have become one of the most influential forces on consumer decision making. For builders, they can make or break a year of work. What is emerging across the industry, however, is a concerning misuse of review platforms by a small group of homeowners....
For builders, delayed payments can cause more damage than a difficult build. Cashflow pressure leads to staff stress, project delays, and in the worst cases, insolvency. Yet many builders still wait until a payment dispute has dragged on for months before seeking...
When a builder hits legal trouble, it usually happens fast; a frustrated client, a missing variation, a delayed payment, a misused clause. But in Damon’s world, most of those fires don’t need to burn at all. On today’s episode of The Good Builder Podcast, Az sat down...
Not everyone’s interested in contracts and paperwork, but this one might be worth a closer look. A QCAT decision earlier this year sent a very strong message to builders, all because of one missing document: the Consumer Building Guide. We've covered this topic a...
Not everyone’s keen to talk contracts over brekky, or are they? We get it. Early morning legals aren't everyone’s idea of a good time. But if you’re building homes in Queensland and you’re not across Section 35 of Schedule 1B, you might be putting your business...
We’ve previously talked about the common pitfalls of building contracts. At The Good Builder, we try to make your working life a little easier by cutting through the politics and the red tape to help you avoid errors that waste time and money. This week (off the back...
At The Good Builder we try to make your working life a little easier by cutting through the bullshit - and the red tape - to help you avoid errors which waste time and money. This week we’ve asked Paul Rojas from one of Brisbane’s biggest legal firms specialising in...
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The Land and Environment Court accepted the structure was moveable, registrable and not a building. The order to stop living in it stood anyway. A caravan is not a building. The Land and Environment Court confirmed that on 9 September, and the finding was enough to...
Western Australia’s smallest council has 617 homes on just over a square kilometre. Its draft strategy models 1,242 more. The reason it exists matters as much as the number. On 25 August 2026, the Shire of Peppermint Grove voted five to one to prepare a preliminary...
The Osaka manufacturer behind Sekisui Heim is paying AU$335 million for control of one of South East Queensland’s largest privately owned builders and developers. The plan published alongside the deal matters more than the price. Sekisui Chemical resolved at a board...
We asked our community what they wanted to know about the Bathla administration. The questions that came back were about exposure, not blame, and the answers turned on one distinction. “If you have a bill outstanding before the administrator rolls in, that money...