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NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia all have building reform underway. Each has picked a different constraint to fix, and almost none of it has started yet. Four states are rewriting the rules that govern building work. What gets less attention is that...
Andy Shaw started his apprenticeship at 14, ran a bricklaying business for 15 years and has since worked alongside more than 25 bricklaying businesses around the country. On the podcast he set out why the trade is built differently to every other one on site, and why...
Declared events damaged 145,392 homes in 2025. The country completed 172,657 new ones. The repair market draws on the same trades, the same materials and the same capacity, and the official housing numbers do not separate the two. In 2025, declared natural disaster...
Queensland’s 100 largest residential builders wrote 962 fewer new home contracts in FY2025/26 and still lifted total contract value by 4.9%. For an industry that has long measured success in homes built, that gap raises a useful question about what growth actually...