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Too-hard basket smoked out by duty-of-care ruling

  • 01/02/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

There’s an interesting side issue to the Queensland smoke-drift case resolved at a tribunal in December last year. And it could spell the beginning of the end for the “too-hard…

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    ‘Abominable’ tower was last straw on defects

    • 17/06/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    An apartment block described by its developers as one of its “architectural landmarks of the finest standard” has been outed by NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler as the “straw that…

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      PODCAST: When defect disaster warnings were covered up

      • 09/07/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      In this week’s episode of the Flat Chat Wrap we look at the claims that the Opal and Mascot towers “disasters” are just the tip of a very large apartment…

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        Flat Chat Wrap #31 – Tip of the defects iceberg and why it’s such a massive problem

        • 09/07/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        In this week’s episode of the Flat Chat Wrap we look at the revelation that the Opal and Mascot towers “disasters” are just the tip of a very large apartment…

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