Your best bet is to contact NSW Tenants Union via its website and they will advise you on your best tactics moving forward. But I would think as a general principle, it would probably be accepted that anything that hasn’t been repaired when it should have been is going to deteriorate faster, and that is on the landlord, not you.
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