Sydney Faces Rent Crisis
Sydney councils have been urged to speed up approvals for new apartments
as Sydney is caught in the grip of a looming rental crisis.

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  Small Business Hopes Raised with Federal Taskforce on Red Tape Reduction
The peak building industry group, the Housing Industry Association, today
welcomed the decision by the Federal Government to appoint a taskforce to identify practical options for alleviating the compliance burden on business but warned that for the hopes to be realised, the initiative had to be embraced by all levels of government.

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  Modest Improvemnet in Home Lending
The flat outlook for new home construction continued in August with lending
for new homes improving only modestly.

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Booming Engineering Construction to Top Residential Sector
Sustained growth in engineering construction means the value of work done in that sector will soon exceed residential work done, according to peak building and construction industry organisation, Master Builders Australia.

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Business conditions up in manufacturing /construction
Australian business conditions improved slightly last month, underpinned by rises in profitability and trading conditions, but confidence remains low, a new survey found.

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2005 Pritzker Prize winner to deliver Sydney talk
Thom Mayne, the 2005 winner of the world’s top architecture prize, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, has confirmed he will visit Sydney to deliver one public talk for the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).

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