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David Chandler’s resignation letter in full

  • 11/08/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

The following is the text of the letter sent by Building Commissoner David Chandler to Fair Trading Department Secretary Emma Hogan on July 7th announcing his decision to resign and…

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    Chandler letter blasts former minister Petinos

    • 10/08/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Building Commissioner David Chandler’s resignation letter, tabled in Parliament today, reveals growing concerns about former Fair Trading minister Eleni Petinos and her dealings with the property development group that hired…

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      Forum: Law breakers want to sue over complaints

      • 09/08/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Our “star forum post” this week (for want of a better term) concerns a resident of a mixed use block where the proprietors of the commercial units all come from…

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        Podcast: The many sins of commission at Fair Trading

        • 09/08/2022
        • Author Jimmy-T

        If there is one area of NSW Liberal politics that may be glad that the kerfuffle over the appointment of a trade envoy to New York is drawing so much…

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          Confusion as another FT commissioner quits

          • 09/08/2022
          • Author Jimmy-T

          It all happened with zero fanfare and little fuss but the NSW department of Fair Trading lost another commissioner this month. In the same week that Building Commissioner David Chandler…

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            Tenants can take OCs to NCAT over defects

            • 09/08/2022
            • Author Jimmy-T

            Tenants have the legal right to take their owners corporations to a NSW Tribunal to force them to fix faults in common property, an NCAT Appeals panel has ruled, but…

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              Firing shows it’s time strata had its own minister

              • 08/08/2022
              • Author Jimmy-T

              The abrupt sacking two weeks ago of Eleni Petinos, Minister for both Small Business and Fair Trading, has exposed a major flaw in both the NSW government’s ministerial structure and…

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                Owners will have to hunt down data Hub info

                • 08/08/2022
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Owners and renters will have to make an effort to find out what their secretaries or strata managers are reporting to the NSW “Hub” data base.  The information will not…

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                  Forum: When you can’t do what the law demands

                  • 02/08/2022
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Usually in the intros to these Forum roundups, we try to give you the best of the newest posts.  It just so happens that there are plenty to choose from…

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                    Podcast: Petinos, pets and petty squabbles

                    • 02/08/2022
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    There we were, all set with a podcast on David Chandler’s resignation in the can, when we heard that NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet had invited Fair Trading Minister Eleni Petinos…

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                      Webinars – committees and forced sales

                      • 02/08/2022
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      They say a camel is a horse designed by a committee – but then what better beast to get you across a desert? This month our sponsors Bannermans Lawyers are…

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                        Castle owners under siege over fire safety

                        • 01/08/2022
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        People love to cite the classic Australian movie The Castle whenever bureaucracy starts interfering with our rights to do what we want in our homes. But when your strata block…

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