Soft Activity Improves Trade Availability
Further softening in home building and renovation activity over the past three months has improved the availability of construction trades.

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  Standards Australia Review - A First Step to Reform
The Productivity Commission report released today recognises the negative impact that the unchecked proliferation of Standards has had on industry’s red tape burden, and the reduction in housing affordability. HIA regards this as the first step in a long process to provide better outcomes for industry and consumer alike. It is now incumbent on State and Federal governments to deliver a better Standards making environment.

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  IPART joins HIA in calling for regulatory reform
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has joined HIA in calling on the NSW Government to adopt good regulatory practices when making or reviewing laws.

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That's Gold
Master Builders Australia is proud to announce a Gold level sponsorship with Home Timber and Hardware.

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Standards Australia Locksets Survey
The Standards Australia website is currently displaying a white paper on 'The development of new Australian Standards for locks and locksets.'

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Consumer Price Rise to Provoke Interest Rate Hike
Australia's second-quarter consumer price rise has exceeded expectations and all but sealed the fate of an interest rate rise next month, according to analysts.

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Super should go into building social infrastructure
Superannuation funds should be able to invest in schools, hospitals and public housing in ways that would make the nation's cities more liveable, Labor says.

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