Building Safety & Defects
- ‘I Have Nothing Left’: Stef is Barely Scraping By After Her Building Received a $7.5M Bill — Nine News
- Damning Report Into Victoria’s Building Regulator Exposes Vast Failures to Protect Homeowners — ABC News
- The Big Lesson From Opal Tower is That Badly Built Apartments Aren’t Only an Issue for Residents — The Conversation
- Lacrosse Fire Ruling Sends Shudders Through Building Industry Consultants and Governments — The Conversation
- Cladding Fire Risks Have Been Known for Years: Lives Depend on Acting Now, With No More Delays — The Conversation
- Grenfell a Year On: Here’s What We Know Went Wrong — The Conversation
- Buck-Passing on Apartment Building Safety Leaves Residents at Risk — The Conversation
- Ministers Fiddle While Buildings Crack and Burn — The Conversation
- Zetland Apartments Abandoned in Secret Evacuation Over ‘Severe’ Defects — The Sydney Morning Herald
- Apartment Owners Face Potential Financial Ruin — Green Street News
- Lessons From the Collapse of Champlain Towers — Injury Lawyers Blog
Key Industry Insights:
- “All of these buildings have been completed during a period where there has been ‘an over-riding focus on affordability’… If the research we have is any guide, between 80% and 97% of these buildings may have serious defects.”
- “If these buildings are defective, the owners and tenants have virtually no recourse. Development companies and building companies are routinely wound up after a building is completed, state governments have withdrawn from the insurance market and private insurers have been proven to provide limited protection.”
Government Housing Policy & Development
- Interview with Patricia Karvelas, Afternoon Briefing, ABC — Navigating the NCC, home loan applications
- New Crisis Housing to Support More Than 22,000 Women and Children — Treasury Ministers
- Progress on Fast-Tracking Housing Supply and Cutting Red Tape — Treasury Ministers
- Good Progress On Way: 1.2 Million Homes Supply Accelerates — Treasury Ministers
- Building Approvals Hit Four-Year High — Treasury Ministers
- Albanese to Override Sceptics and Plough Billions Into Suburban Rail Loop — The Age
- Doorstop interview, Victoria – $145 million investment into crisis and transitional housing in Victoria, Australia’s housing crisis, tax changes in the 2026 federal Budget
Property Market, Finance & Billionairs
- How Many Home Owners Are in Negative Equity Now? — The Age
- Melbourne Apartment Owners TRAPPED – Can’t SELL, Can’t HOLD — 9 News Australia
- One-in-five Melbourne unit investors selling at a loss — 9 News Australia
- The Melbourne Property Plays Set to Make James Packer Millions — The Age
- Gina Rinehart & Southern Cross Austereo: What Do Billionaire Media Buyouts Mean for Democracy? — The Conversation
Corruption, Governance, Politics & Construction Sector Issues
- Yet another CFMEU royal commission won’t solve much until we learn from the past — The Conversation
- CFMEU ‘Monopoly’ Cause of Big Build Corruption, Says Construction Boss — The Age
- Allan Goes to Ground, Labor Closes Ranks on $15b CFMEU Blowouts — Australian Financial Review
- $15b Poured Into Criminals’ Hands: Bombshell Findings CFMEU Tried to Hide — The Age
- Taxpayers to Foot Bigger Bill for Political Campaigns Under Labor Plan — The Age
- Update From the Minister: Interview With Lucy Breaden — ABC Radio (Hobart Drive)
- The identities linked to corruption at the CFMEU, according to Queensland’s Commission of Inquiry — ABC News
- Underworld figure Mick Gatto and wife Cheryl arrested as part of construction industry corruption probe — News24
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