Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Our home-building industry is going nowhere fast

You may think that a newly built home or unit looks pretty swish. But what no one’s noticed until now is that our home building industry is clapped out. Gone to pot. It’s going nowhere fast. While most of our industries have improved greatly over the past 30 years, the housing industry hasn’t. If anything, it’s getting worse.As I’ve mentioned before, now that the ever-worsening affordability of home ownership has reached a crisis...
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Monday, July 22, 2024

Construction industry a honeypot that capital and labour fight over

Don’t fall for the bogeyman theory of our troubled major constructions industry: its union has gone rogue, been infiltrated by criminal elements, and must be cleaned out, so life can return to normal. There’s much more to it than that.But first, let’s be clear. I’m trying to explain the phenomenon, not make excuses for thuggery and lawbreaking – even if perpetrated by the union movement, with successive Labor governments pretending...
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