HIA Comments on ALP Industrial Relations Policy
On 28 August 2007 the ALP announced its long-awaited clarifications to its industrial relations policy Forward With Fairness: Policy Implementation Plan .

More information >>

  New Home Sales Still Weak In July
New home sales posted only a marginal rise at the start of the new financial year.

More information >>

  ALP POLICY STATEMENT ON IR
Federal Labor's IR Policy statement announced today provides HIA with greater clarity and assurances in relation to their employment policies, particularly for the building and construction industry.

More information >>

Project Home "Affordable, Climate Sensitive"
An “affordable, liveable and replicable home” that also demonstrated climate-sensitive passive design won the HIA GreenSmart Project Home of the Year category for Seaspray Project Management – Seaspray, of Queensland at the HIA-Boral GreenSmart Awards.  The category is partnered with Austral Bricks.

More information >>

Master Builders back AWAs
Australia's peak building and construction industry association, Master Builders Australia, will continue to strongly support the retention of Australian Workplace Agreements in the light of today's announcement of ALP industrial relations policy.

More information >>

National Approach to Housing Affordability Crisis
Australia¡¦s peak building and construction industry association, Master Builders Australia, has called on federal, state and territory governments to urgently examine a unified national strategy to combat the crisis in housing affordability.

More information >> 

Construction Work Done Falls Back
Construction work done fell back in the June quarter, a sign of capacity constraints and price pressures in non-residential as well as poor affordability delaying recovery in residential building, according to Master Builders Australia, the peak body for the building and construction industry.

More information >>