Since the devastating inferno at the Grenfell Tower in London, buildings across Australia have been found to be covered with flammable material. But adding to the costs of removing it is the refusal of most insurers to provide cover for potential disasters.
Make the manufacturer pay for the fix and ensure govt regulatory (🤣🤔) body stops the importation of inferior products.
mjrowland68 The root causes for the crisis: governments have (1) supported - instead of controlled - unbridled greed (2) forced Councils to rezone to achieve apartment targets to accommodate unsustainable immigration (3) ignored that capital cities reached limits to growth
about bloody time So far we have had to suffer millions in losses due to neoliberal free wheeling way of doing biz Self regulation n everybody'd be happy Now we know developers have been negligent n sloppy They built lemons to squeeze profit
Stop importing sub standard building products from China. Invest in Australian industry
Australia's Problem it's a 3rd world country posing as a developed country.When it's not. Shoddy workmanship is everywhere. High rise buildings ,Cracks everywhere,Domestic housing is even worse, Flammable cladding ,on high rise building. And owners are expected to foot the bill.
I wasn't aware we had Audio Ministers. 😉
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Fed Govt rejects request to fund Vic Govt's $600m cladding planThe Federal Government is refusing to contribute money to a $600 million cladding rectification fund announced by the Victorian Government today. How is this not an insurance issue or a legal claim against either the manufacturer of the cladding or the builders? Or is the State govt liable for its passing safety regulations? Yes if course they rejected it. No surprise at all!! Good, because that plan is a scam and taxpayers are not responsible for repairing the private property of other people who may not even be Australian citizens.
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